Photos by Ganesha Lockhart

Artists featured listed below.

Kate Carter

London-based artist Kate Carter transforms found imagery into mesmerising mazes made with minimalist lines. Injected with joyful shapes to lull you into a daydream. Kate’s line drawings started off as morale-boosting postcards with heartfelt messages to be sent to loved ones during lockdown. Drawing inspiration from nature, the portraits evolved and grew into the designs you see today, arranged like a bouquet of flowers, carefully placed yet still wild.

@katecarterart

Ana Curbelo

Ana Curbelo is an award winning illustrator and artist. She has worked as an illustrator internationally with clients such as Microsoft, BBC, and Most Wanted Wines, creating characters with a very distinct personal style. Her most notable work are her illustrations for The Tampon Book, which helped change German law and won several awards at all the major award festivals including a White Pencil in Impact at D&AD, and a Grand Prix at Cannes Lions, attracting worldwide press interest.

@untepid

Gemma Geraghty

Gemma Geraghty is an East London based, female artist from Ireland. She is an advocate for mental health awareness and believes that there is strength in vulnerability. Her art-making is an act of catharsis and expression. Gemma's work explores hardness and softness, darkness and light, sadness and joy and how these opposites are not always mutually exclusive. Her work revolves around tensions, between wanting freedom and the need for structure, what we show of ourselves and what we choose to hide. 

@gemma_geraghty_makes

Chloe Isteed

Chloe Isteed is a female illustrator and animator based in London/Essex, represented by The Bright Agency. Inspired by narratives within the everyday, she uses painted paper collage to capture a sense of connection, whether that be between people, objects or landscapes. She is particularly interested in exploring the role of objects within storytelling, and believes that every object has their own story to tell. Chloe loves the tactile, playful process of collage, and combines colour and texture to create images with a handmade quality. This piece, entitled Tulip Ballet, is inspired by colourful fields of tulips dancing in the wind, celebrating togetherness and community. She has worked with clients such as London Transport Museum, Let’s Talk About Loss and University of the Arts London, and has previously been longlisted for the World Illustration Awards. Alongside her practice, she also works in arts education, teaching illustration and animation to students exploring creative pathways.

@chloe_isteed

Shiori Osakata

Shio is a female illustrator & muralist from Japan, currently based in London. After studying architecture in Japan, she moved to New York and pursued her study at Columbia University. Later, she moved to Los Angeles where she worked for Walt Disney Imagineering for a year. While there, she met many inspiring creatives, who encouraged her to explore her own creativity. After returning to Japan, she started her career as an illustrator. With a background in architecture and urban design & planning as well as her experiences from living in different cities, she often gets inspiration from people and the cities they inhabit. Her works always deliver positive messages and evoke various feelings. You can find her work at shiodrawing.com or her instagram

@shiodrawing

Charlotte Robinson

Local female artist Charlotte Robinson founded Minus Cloud Nine in 2014 after seeing a need to create conversations around mental health. Using the signature cloud headed characters, to represent all individuals on the good, bad and grey days. The purpose of the cloud to be to ignite conversations through the illustrations to help people feel heard and safe when speaking around their own cloud and reminds us that they we not alone. 'No rain, no flowers' is a message to ourselves when experiencing periods of struggle, it may be an opportunity for something else to bloom.

@minuscloudnine