Jenny Robins

Jenny Robins

Illustrator, artist and teacherUnited Kingdom
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Jenny Robins

Jenny Robins

Illustrator, artist and teacherUnited Kingdom
About me
Illustrator, teacher and artist based in Islington, I have a recognisable style grounded in strong colours and organic subtleties of texture, specialising in unusual collage work, hand rendered text and painting birds and animals. I am a very competent draughtsman. An experienced live artist, I also do a lot of live portrait work for events. Recent illustrative work includes record sleeve work for The New Tabloids and Afro Medusa, political illustrations for Epolotix; T-shirt designs for the Social Fabric at Topman, Children’s book work for CBBC, comic work for Solipsistic Pop and Soaring Penguin Press and poster and promotional designs for Hoxton Hive and The One Hour Plays. My own ongoing projects include What Birds are Really Thinking, Real TV Wisdom, the Facebook portrait project, and Alternative collage valentines 'Because You're Worth It'. I am a fast worker and experienced working to short deadlines. I am also excellent at conceptual illustration visualising complex or abstract subjects. When not bubbling over with my own ideas (which I usually am) I also love making work that uses found text, patterns and images to combine into something that never could have been thought of on its own (the best example of this is my unique alternative valentines card designs) but I can also fake this effect very well. In recent years I have brought together my connections to the illustration and local art scenes in London with my skills as an art teacher by organising a series of very successful events with StoryHands Collective, including a workshop at Tate Modern and an award winning Big Draw sketchbook Scavenger Hunt. I have also produced a variety of illustrations and written content for Amelia's Magazine and for other online magazines and blogs. My writing style is engaging and unusual, linking thorough research with wry off centre observations
Projects
  • Biscuits (assorted) Graphic Novel out 12th November from Myriad Editions
    Biscuits (assorted) Graphic Novel out 12th November from Myriad Editions
  • Fashion Ilustration
    Fashion IlustrationA selection of work from my fashion illustration portfolio, mostly work completed for Amelia's Magazine, some live illustration included.
  • Real TV Wisdom
    Real TV WisdomAn ongoing project in which I draw from television, recording the words of wisdom from various reality TV and competitive cooking stars along with their expressions, and a blog reflecting on the absurdity of life.
  • Birds
    BirdsA further selection of my art and illustration featuring birds.
  • Collage design including alternative valentines
    Collage design including alternative valentinesA selection of work from my collage design portfolio, including the ongiong series of alternative valentines which have been collected in the books 'Because You're Worth It and Because You're Worth It 2. Also included two pages from a lyrics booklet designed for The New Tabloids.
  • Hand drawn typography work
    Hand drawn typography workA selection of work from my typography and logo design portfolio.
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Work history
    Illustrator
    Freelance illustration work undertaken for a variety of clients including CBBC, Computer Arts Magazine, TopMan, Soaring Penguin Press, Our Time Records, Epolotix and many more. I have a recognisable style grounded in strong colours and organic subtleties of texture, specialising in unusual collage work, hand rendered text and painting birds and animals. I am a very competent draftsman. An experienced live artist, I also do a lot of live portrait work for events
    Events Organiser & Promotional Work
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    As co-founder of the StoryHands Illustration collective, I have organised several very successful events as well as running the collective's website and a series of promotional projects. In May 2014 we ran a workshop at Tate Modern as part of Tate Collective's events program. We took a group of young people around the Matisse Cut Outs exhibition and led them in producing work inspired by the artist's techniques and artistic philosophy. Our Sketchbook Scavenger Hunts in the City of London in November 2014 also won us wide acclaim including a runners up award at this years Big Draw Awards.
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Skills
  • Teaching
  • Events
  • Writing
  • Craft
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Public Art
  • People
  • Fine Art
  • Mixed Media
  • Blogging
  • Illustration
  • Pen Ink
  • Illustrator
  • Photoshop
Education
    MA Art and Design Education
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    PGCE
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Awards
    The Big Draw Award
    Runners up award given for Sketchbook Scavenger Hunt organised with StoryHands http://www.thebigdraw.org/the-big-draw-awards-2015---winners-announced