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AP News 2011
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02 December 2011 The new 2012 brochure and a celebration of 60 years of Artist Partners
In 1950 G. Donovan Candler left a major London based artists agency to set up in business with L.A. Rix, Betty Luton White, John Barker and the designer Reg Mount. They did not solicit the representation of those artists, designers and photographers whom they had previously represented, but were nevertheless inundated with requests from many of them for representation, and so in two rooms in Soho's Lower John Street, in May 1951, Artist Partners was founded. To celebrate our first sixty years we have plundered the archives and present a collection of images from the early days. Looking forward we show a selection of some of the artists from our current crop. Thanks to Bruno Tilley for brochure design, Michael Morris and Penny Jones for the retro section and Sam Hadley for the cover image. |
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21 September 2011 Dawn Austin
Dawn is the digital art director for Venture Photography's Hong Kong branch. Dawn has won gold awards with Venture for six year running. This year she has added two more to her illustrious collection. The first win was in the 'Singles' category and the second (above) in 'Teen', she worked with the photographers Georgina Adams and Catherine Chu respectively. Venture Studio's Hong Kong | Dawn's portfolio
Paul Young Paul's hugely accomplished photo-mural celebrating celebrating a century of Prestatyn's history.
Mel Grant ImaginaMalage 2011 - Comic Con Malaga Spain. 22nd –25th September 2011. Street: Fermina Fenandez 17 Mel collected the award for best Illustrator on Friday 23rd September and talked about his work on the Saturday. There was a show of Mel's artwork at Erin O'Conner's Model Sanctuary for London Fashion Week, 16th – 24th September 2011. |
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31 August 2011 John Holmes 1935-2011 - Surrealist Painter
At this time, he worked as an Art Director in advertising and spent many years illustrating for top publishing houses throughout the world including Pan Books, Granada Books, Harper Collins and Paladin - where he designed and painted the famous book jacket for Germaine Greer's book, "Female Eunuch". John designed the jacket for "Jaws" as well. He also worked in the editorial market producing artwork for Nova Magazine. Among some of the worlds leading surrealist painters, John takes much of his inspiration from Salvador Dali as well as Rene Magritte. Among his recent paintings John was inspired to paint Sister Eunuch. John was with Artist Partners for nearly 15 years. Read an interview with John over at All Things Horror
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29 July 2011 Sharon Pinsker - Amy Winehouse
AP's director Christine Isteed would like to highlight a quote from the Rabbi at her funeral: "....life is not measured in years but deeds." A succinct and apt tribute to her short but extremely creative and talented life. |
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28 July 2011 David Roberts - Illustrates "The Eddie Dickens Trilogy" Three books in one: Awful End, Dreadful Acts and Terrible Times. When Eddie Dickens's parents go yellow, crinkly around the edges and smell of old hot-water bottles, he's sent away to live with Mad Uncle Jack, Even Madder Aunt Maud and her stuffed stoat called Malcolm... David Roberts has illustrated works by some fantastic authors such as Philip Ardagh, Daren King, Julia Donaldson, Jacqueline Wilson, Tom Baker and Chris Priestley. David considers himself privileged and lucky to be doing a job he loves. His most recent works include 'Iggy Peck, Architect' by Andrea Beaty, 'The Troll' by Julia Donaldson and 'The Dunderheads' by Paul Fleischman which was shortlisted for the 2010 Kate Greenaway Award. David is also the creator of the 'Dirty Bertie' character about a little boy with bad habits such as picking his nose and trumping loudly! Philip Ardagh is the award-winning author of the Eddie Dickens adventures, currently published in over 30 languages. He wrote BBC radio's first truly interactive radio drama, collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney on his first children's book and is a 'regularly irregular' reviewer of children's books for the Guardian. Married with a son, he divides his time between Tunbridge Wells and Grubtown, where he cultivates his impressive beard. Phillip Ardagh's web site | David Roberts portfolio | David Roberts web site
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20 June 2011 Rosamund Fowler - The Royal Acadamy Summer Exhibition 2011 Rosamund Fowler has had an entry accepted again for The Royal Acadamy Summer Exhibition 2011, with "Pinky's Portrait." The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition info | Rosumund's portfolio
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28 May 2011 Gary Blythe - the peoples choice
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13 May 2011
Richard Jones is responsible for the cover art work for James Holland's new book Duty Calls - Dunkirk. James is a war historian and a presenter to BBC2's Battle of Britain documentary series.
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12 May 2011 Waterloo Quarter magazine interview with Christine Isteed AP's Managing Director - Christine Isteed - is interviewed in the current edition of the 'Waterloo Quarter'. The 'Waterloo Quarter' is the local Business Improvement District (BID), charged with the mission of making Waterloo - on the South bank of the Thames - a better place to do business. The BID works on a number of schemes to improve the area; from environment and public realm projects, to marketing and promotion activities. |
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28 april 2011 Chris Moore interview on Radio Lancashire
Training at the prestigious Royal College of Art it wasn't long before Chris's work caught the eye of an art director at Associated Book Publishers. Chris's alien aesthetics and final frontiers draw on tried and true illustrative technique. In his words 'from way before computers', but what use is a computer when you can invent the future? Chris' portfolio here at AP. |
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26 April 2011 Brian Sanders - in 'Today's Illustration'
Our illustrator Brian Sanders has been featured on 'Today's Inspiration' a design blog with an eye towards classics from the 1940s-60s. Part one appeared 25th April 2011 with part two on 26th . Have a look at his beautiful past works and read about the first steps in a long and illustrious career. Today's Inspiration - Part 1 | Part Two | Part 3 Brian's portfolio here at AP |
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20 April 2011 Chris Moore - 'Preston Life' magazine
APs Chris Moore was featured in 'Preston Life' magazine. Read the article (PDF format) | Chris Moore portfolio |
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18 April 2011 Debbie Boon - Rural to Coastal
A new body of work by APs Debbie Boon. Stamford Arts Centre May 17th - 5th June 2011. |
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14 March 2011 Bob Lea - new covers for Artemis Fowl relaunch Artemis Fowl, the story of a 12-year-old criminal mastermind, has been voted by the public as the UK's all-time favourite Puffin book. Now relaunched by author Eoin Colfer with stunning new covers by AP's Bob Lea. |
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View Eoin Colfer at Picadilly Circus for the relaunch on the big screen |
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28 February 2011 Patrick Tilley find on EBay Our friends over at Quad Royal - a blog about posters and graphics - recently found gold on offer on EBay: "I've never seen a Patrick Tilley poster up for sale, so we never search for them – and nor, I will hazard, do many other people. So, up on eBay without the right keywords and no one finding them, this amazing set of posters only reached $20, which wasn't anywhere near the reserve." Read the full story at Quad Royal | Patrick Tilley here on AP
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24 February 2011 Julie Goonan - joins AP Julie Goonan graduated from The San Francisco Academy of Art University and has been an Illustrator for many years. Her clients include: New York Botanical Gardens, Texaco, General Electric, Coca Cola, San Francisco Forty niners, San Francisco Chronicle, Marcel Schurman Fine Papers, Portal Publications, Bruce Mc Gaw Graphics and many more. Julie is currently doing mainly digital Illustration. Have a look at her pieces especially if you are looking for wallpaper, wrapping design etc. |
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21 February 2011 David Roberts - Dirty Bertie: Kiss
Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie as he struggles to escape from the clutches of Angela Nicely, looks after the elderly class hamster, ends up with a star solo trumpet performance, even though he's never played one before... He's back! The fourteenth book in the Dirty Bertie highly successful series illustrated by David Roberts and written by Alan Macdonald - published by Stripes Publishing. An Ideal animation project for a production company out there that might be |
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11 February 2011 Susan Barrett - WRD Susan Barrett is an experienced novelist, thankful that she began her writing career in easier times. Her seven novels were published in hardback and paperback in the UK and USA. She sold the film rights of her first novel and has written natural history and children's books with her husband, wildlife artist Peter Barrett. She took a break to train and then practise as a counsellor and psychotherapist. When her interest in fiction returned, she found the publishing scene had changed dramatically. She decided to take action. Her belief is that there are many readers who appreciate the kind of writing that sales departments disregard. WritersReadersDirect aims to link these writers and readers. |
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31 January 2011 David Gemmell Legend Awards The David Gemmell Legend Awards have just announced their short list for the best book covers for this year! Artist Partners artists once again appear very strongly and dominate the nominations for this years book covers appearing in the highly prestigious David Gemmell Legend Awards. Artist Partners and their artists once again are ever strong in this particular fantasy genre, and are delighted to present the works of the nominated artists: Bob Lea, Larry Rostant and Paul Young. Artists and the pieces that they're nominated for are:
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Bob Lea - Cover of 'The War of the Dwarves' by Markus Heitz |
Larry Rostant - Cover of 'The Ragged Man' by Tom Lloyd |
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Larry Rostant - Cover of 'The Bone Palace' by Amanda Downum |
Paul Young - Cover of 'Tome of the Undergates' by Sam Sykes |
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Paul Young - Cover of 'Wolfsangel' by M.D. Lachlan |
Paul Young - Cover of 'The Thief-Taker's Apprentice' by Stephen Deas |
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| The David Gemmell Legend Awards Bob Lea's portfolio Larry Rostant's portfolio Paul Young's portfolio |
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30 January 2011 Martyn Pick - Commercial for Ogilvy Dublin Martyn Pick has directed a 20 second commercial for Ogilvy Dublin to promote the Turner exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland which runs from 1st – 31st January 2011. The precious collection of J.M.W. Turner watercolours is only allowed to be displayed for one month a year to ensure its preservation. The condition of the bequest to the gallery by collector Henry Vaughn back in 1900 was that the works could only be removed from their specially built cabinet each January when the light levels are at their lowest. |
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The new 2012 brochure has a retrospective section celebrating 
John Holmes was a self taught artist who started out working with wax using a razor and wire wool. He worked as a meat porter in London's East End, was made redundant and then made a living as an artist. His first one man show was at the Raille Gallery, Islington in 1961 followed by years of many successful shows at some of the world's top galleries in the USA, Europe and the UK.
Commissioned in 2007, this four foot portrait of Amy Winehouse by 
Gary Blythe exhibited at The Williamson Art Gallery & Museum - Wirral Spring Art & Photography exhibition and won the award for the one piece most admired by the visitors to the gallery - "Bird".
Richard Jones - cover for Duty Calls - Dunkirk
Yesterday - 27th April - our distinguished Science Fiction Illustrator 
