Anna Higgie | People of Print

Bristol-dependent artist Anna Higgie divides her time between outside jobs – murals, competition sets, big installations, and illustration tasks of all sorts. Her artworks are inspired by all the things about her “constantly distracted” Anna’s illustrations replicate influences from comedian guides to fashion mags, and Hieronymus Bosch to Matisse, among innumerable other artists.

Just after completing a degree in painting at the Nationwide Artwork School in Sydney, the Australian artist came to London where by she examined Illustration at the London School of Communication. Soon after finishing her research in 2007, Anna established up as a freelance illustrator, based in Bristol, in which she has worked ever because.

Her mural function took off a bit afterwards on “I started off off sign crafting and executing decor for friends’ pageant levels, and then it grew organically from there, inevitably primary to large business mural tasks in educational facilities, museums, and for providers like Starbucks.”

When creating her illustrations, Anna begins by looking at the transient, doing a whole lot of image research on the web, and producing electronic collages, which she then sketches from to enable the tips unfold. Her paintings, produced in her Bristol studio, are typically on board painted utilizing acrylics (normally applying aged paints that are leftover from mural jobs). Eager to keep up a hand drawing exercise, Anna attends lifestyle drawing lessons where she generally sticks with delicate charcoal, and she also keeps a sketchbook applying classic pencils and inks.

When building murals, Anna generates a digital design to start with using Procreate on her iPad Pro. From below, she plays with massive, flat styles, producing layers from the qualifications up. She then works by using the electronic design as a information and paints the mural freehand to scale. Her paints of selection contain trade emulsions from Johnsons and often Dulux.

Anna is about to have a little one, and is hoping to choose a temporary phase back again from commissioned operate to examine her have eyesight and focus more on her print creating exercise.