Invisible Structures

For the final project of year two we were given the task of visualising physics, which resulted in an end of year show http://www.invisiblestructures.net/. I choose to focus on the way light reacts in and on water, and created a quilt out of a series of diagrams and visual representations. I explored phenomena such as reflection, scattering, glitter, refraction, caustic reflections and caustic projections. Illustrating the invisible network of light rays which create the dazzling glints of sunlight on the sea; the bright patterns created on the floor of a swimming pool and reflected on the surfaces around it, and also the variations of light and shade which enhances the pattern of waves on the water. 

Children's Book - The Butterfly House

These are the completed images for my children's book, submitted for the Macmillian Competition. The story is about two figurines who come to life at night, and play hide and seek with butterflies!

The beginning of a children's book

These are the initial character ideas for my children's book and work produced in a character development workshop.

'O brave new world that has such people in it.'

These are the images I have submitted for the Folio Society Competition. Three illustrations and binding rough for Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

The quotes that accompany the illustrations are as follows:

'One egg, one embryo, one adult- normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds...’

‘...she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity.’

‘His conditioning has laid down rails along which he’s got to run...’

Publication

This is a group project, in which we have to produce a publication combining our essays. Our essay question was about how art and design can be used to teach other subjects. The idea of our book is to provide usable examples of the ideas explored in our essays. Using quotes from our essays to support the activities we are proposing. My essay looked at using stories and illustration in education. Therefore I have included minor narratives to present information for two different topics: Marie Antoinette and the french revolution and Butterflies. Here are the some of the illustrations which will use minimal colour, encouraging children to colour them in.

Brave New World

This is my development work in response to the Folio Society Competition brief to illustrate Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. I became really interested in the science aspect of the story, and the human intervention with nature. I have been looking at the manipulation of the embryo, sleep and neurons. I wanted to keep this link and theme across my three illustrations in order to have consistency. The front cover will also have this theme, looking at the idea of 'a cell in a social body.'

  

Editorial

My final editorial illustration in response to an article about autistic children in education. Children who have turned their back on the eduction system which fails to enable them to move seamlessly and painlessly between schools. Children who lack the support to choose their own pathway, unlike many of their peers.