It’s been almost two weeks since Tiny Pencil launched its inaugural issue at Gosh! Comics in Soho, London and we’ve been busy as ever. It was a fantastic night and massive props to Tom Oldham, Mike Medaglia and the whole team at Gosh! Comics for hosting us. And special thanks to Derwent Pencils for sponsoring the launch and supporting independent artists in the UK! Here’s a quick round up of went do...
Hi Rima! Thanks for taking the time to talk to us about pencils. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? Hello, gosh that could be a potentially very long answer! Here’s the shorter one: I’m an artist using oils, watercolour, pencil, wood, word, story, music, puppetry, animation and clock-making to attempt to conjure a kind of gateway between this world and that. I feel like the world I pai...
Chris Rixon is and artist/illustrator living in the South West of England. He specialises in traditional pen and ink drawing. Hi Chris! Thanks for taking the time to talk to us about your work. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? I’m an illustrator currently living in Falmouth, Cornwall. I recently finished my MA down here and have stuck around because I love it here. My background is in realism a...
Hi there. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us about pencils. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? Hello! My name is Jamie Mills, I’m an artist/illustrator, a little bit of an animator and a print and book-maker. There’s a general thread that runs through most of the work I do, a need for me to analyse and explore natural objects, as well as understand human interaction with nature. So, why graph...
Hi Yoko. Thanks for taking the time to talk about pencils. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? Hi! I’m a Japanese painter currently living in London. I left Japan for art school in Los Angeles in 2000. After living and working there for a while, I moved to Thailand in 2007. Then in 2010, I came here to England, where I am now painting and also working on children’s book illustrations. We feel really...
Rachel is an artist from Montréal who is currently installed in the heart of Acadia. She’s a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where she majored in fine art studio, art theory and criticism yet was always seduced by the simplicity of a pencil. Her degree was partnered with a lengthy Kafkaesque off-campus gallery internship. She was twice awarded the Joseph Beuys Memorial Scholarship and a handful ...
Luke Pearson is a cartoonist/illustrator/comics type person from the UK. He is best known for his Hilda series of comics and Everything We Miss, both published by Nobrow. Hi there. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? Hello. My name is Luke Pearson and I’m a cartoonist, maybe. I do illustrations and draw comics and other things. I have a comic series th...
John is a freelance illustrator and designer based in Cornwall. His practice is based on high-tempo, never-say-no creativity with an emphasis on humour and the absurd. Selected clients include Atlantic Press Books, Emap publishing, Bath Fringe Festival, Strandline Books, The Shri Tulsi Mandir Charitable Foundation, Falmouth University, A-Side design, Bull Rodger design, LMNOP, Origin Coffee, Love Riot and Slut clothi...
LAUNCH OF THE FOREST ISSUE! Saturday, April 27th 2013 @ Gosh! Comics Join us for the launch of the first ever issue of ‘Tiny Pencil’! Amazing artists. Fizzy drinks. LIVE drawing! Watch awe-inspiring artists like Nick Sheehy, Kristyna Baczynski, Jamie Mills, Stuart Whitton, Vanessa Foley and John D. Kilburn put their pencils to paper! And partake in other pencil-related activities throughout the evening! I...
