Hey, I’m Siân! I recently graduated from Falmouth University’s Illustration BA with First Class Honours. My focus is primarily on children’s narrative illustration, and I love using different colours and textures to create layered collage pieces. I create detailed pieces from paper, pencil and acrylic paint before layering the different elements digitally.
I am very interested in how illustrated books may be used to help children make their way through life’s difficulties. My university book projects often dealt with the subjects of death, loss and difficult emotions. I can’t go a day without drawing, so you’ll usually find me with a sketchbook in my bag or a pencil in my hand!
Projects
- The Journey to ZoeThe Journey to Zoe is a self authored and illustrated book dealing with sibling death, and the confusion and difficult feelings that the sibling left behind might feel. The main character goes on a magical dream journey, learning along the way that although it is valid and important to feel negative emotions talking about them to people can stop them from becoming overwhelming. This project was made by combining traditional collaged textures and papers with digital painting.
- Suzy’s Big Colour AdventureSuzy’s Big Colour Adventure is a board book about the colours of the rainbow for very young audiences, complete with lift the flap elements. Suzy the sausage dog is searching for her rainbow ball, but it’s not under the Red Trees, it’s not in the Yellow Flowers, it’s not among the Green Grass... Under each flap is a new little animal that suits the environment of the page, or a green caterpillar to search for on every spread. This project was created by making many textures by hand in a variet
- WunderkammerThis is my contribution to Falmouth University’s illustration graduate publication: Wunderkammer. I worked with the idea of the vast and curious imagination of children, where even something as simple as a cardboard box can hold endless possibility. This piece was created with handmade textures that include screen print and acrylic paint, before being put together digitally.
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Projects credited in
- Falmouth University, Illustration BA(Hons)BA Illustration at Falmouth University has a long and distinguished history. Always at the heart of the course’s philosophy is the intention of producing graduates that know how to create powerful and successful illustrative solutions. Our graduates understand how to promote and market themselves within a rapidly evolving visual communication industry with many going on to forge successful careers as freelance illustrators, art directors and designers amongst many other potential careers. We enc23
Skills
- Collage
- Drawing
- Digital Painting
- Portrait Artist
- Childrens Illustration
- Hand Lettering
- Character Design
Education
Illustration BA (hons) Falmouth University
- Falmouth, United Kingdom