Richard Cobbold

Richard Cobbold has just completed his MA in Sequential Illustration at the University of Brighton. For his final show he produced a graphic novel which as you can see from the examples above contained some pretty stunning illustration. Richard teaches at college but he has also worked commercially for some impressive clients. His angle is refreshingly straightforward and brimming with impressive technical competence. Magic. 

Richard will be working with yr 1 on Wednesday and will be delivering a talk about his work early morning to both yr 1 and yr 2.

FdA Illustration Students and The Emma Mason Gallery

The Emma Mason Gallery in Eastbourne specializes in the sale of British prints.  Current year one students and one graduate of the FdA Illustration course submitted prints to the Gallery on the theme of 'The Visit'.

Four students were successful and the work of Nina Somers, Lianne Cheal, Keith Hau and Rowena O'Reilly were successful and are now showing their work at the gallery. Emma Mason said: ”I think the partnership has worked remarkably well. Initially, we agreed to select work from only three students, however the standard was much higher than expected and made it hard to choose.”

Student Nina Sommers said: “This has been a fantastic learning experience. Now that I understand the process involved in submitting artwork to a gallery, I feel far more confident about getting my work out there.”

The work shown here is that of Rowena O'Reilly who completed the fdA Illustration course in 2012 and has just graduated from the BA top-up. Her work has been further used to advertise the Food and Wine Festival happening in Hastings in September 2013.

Made in Hastings Show

Year 2 students have just completed showing and selling their work in 'Made in Hastings' in the Old Town.  It's been a big success, firstly because it looked eye catching and distinct and, secondly, quite a number of students sold their work.  Alessandra Chambers, Ami Freed, Mathew Coltman and Heather McCarthy have all been asked to continue to sell work in the shop and year 1 are invited to put on an exhibition of their work next year.

A view from outside of Alessandra's printed T-shirt and Josh's cardboard clock.

Sarah Malleady screen-printed a unashamedly decorative design based on peacocks and inspired by delftware.  Josh Ross's cardboard box is sitting on the top of Sarah's scarf.  His brown box turns inside out to make a clock. Simple, cheap and innovative.

Becky Draper made tiny paper butterfly earrings packaged in simple round tins.

Pippa Hunt produced some intricate embroidery, re-produced five times as the brief asked. They're intentionally sweet so as to contrast with the punchy words.