Featured Artists: March 2010
Linzie Hunter
London-based Linzie Hunter graduated from Glasgow University and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama before studying illustration at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Originally from Glasgow, she began her professional career as a stage manager and theatre lecturer before becoming a full-time freelance illustrator in 2005.

Linzie’s hand-lettering and illustrations have appeared in books, magazines, and advertising campaigns internationally. Her clients include: BBC, Nike, Time Magazine, The Guardian, Gillette, Orange, Penguin, Random House and Bloomsbury
Her work is influenced by her love of all things vintage. Any spare time is often spent hunting down paraphernalia from the 50s and 60s, including but not limited to: tiki barware, pulp books, robots, dice, kitchenalia, old picture books, and science magazines. When not at the computer, she also enjoys traditional printmaking.

Her postcard book, “Secret Weapon: 30 Hand-Painted Spam Postcards”, was published by Chronicle Books in 2008 and her first picture book “A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose” by Stephanie Stuve Bodeen was published by Little Brown in January 2010.
See more of Linzie’s work here.
John Shelley
I’ve been an illustrator since graduating from Manchester Poly in the early 1980’s.
After a few years freelancing in London, chiefly for publishing, I was bitten by the lure of the Far East and moved to Tokyo, living there for 21 years. I became widely known in Japan following a campaign of posters for Parco fashion department store, since then much of my work in the Far East has been for advertising and related graphic industries, though in recent years I’ve focused equally towards my first love, children’s books. In 2008 I returned to the UK and am now based in London, though I continue to maintain close connections with Japan.

My style has developed in multiple directions due to parallel careers in the publishing and advertising fields, nevertheless most is anchored around pen & ink line drawings. In the wider commercial market I often use a combination of digital and hand-drawn techniques. I’m inspired by contemplative graphic images that have an arresting simplicity, also conceptual and surrealist themes, especially in poster art. For children’s books I generally prefer a tight traditional approach using pen, ink and watercolour. Though I cover most age groups I’ve a particular love of quirky fantasy, mystery and fairytales.
The variety of subject matters notwithstanding, in all my work I try to articulate dynamism in my pen lines, depth in my vision, and clarity in my approach.

Major advertising clients have included Mitsubishi, Parco, Hakkeijima Sea Paradise, Sony, Mitsukansu, NHK, Japan Railways, Apple Japan, Roland, Suntory, Kirin, Komatsu, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Toyota, Family Mart, Keio Dept Store, Hankyu Dept Store, Kodak, Heiwa, Orix, Tokyo International Car Show, Tokyo Pet Show, Kikkoman, Nichiban etc etc.
I’ve illustrated over 40 children’s books to date, for publishers in Japan, the US and UK, including Scholastic, FS&G, Simon & Schuster, Frances Lincoln, Andersen Press, Front Street, Charlesbridge, Fukuinkan Shoten, Tokuma Shoten, Hyoronsha and Kodansha.
See more of John’s work here.
Alex Poupard (Octagon Computer Graphics)
I began illustrating and visualising under the name of Octagon Computer Graphics in 1998 after two Technical Illustration Diplomas at college. I had enjoyed using traditional techniques of pencil, paintbrush and airbrush at college and am always interested in new technology so moving from traditional methods to CGI software was a natural progression. I now enjoy the precision and photographic nature of this kind of work.

My work has mainly been producing images for product visualisation, and also for marketing, when clients would traditionally have automatically used photography. This has been for everything from products and packaging, food, drink, vehicles, architecture, furniture and flowers & vegetation. I’ve also produced several large animation projects, sometimes for concept presentations but also for CD or DVD commercial presentations or training videos.
I have many regular clients which I think comes from working to a consistant high standard, and never missing a deadline in the 12 years I’ve been working. I am also very adaptable and used to completing last minute surprise projects when my clients have been placed in a tight spot.

My clients are many and varied, throughout the UK and regular International clients. A list of just some of the brands I’ve worked on are: Barclays Bank, Britvic, Cadbury, Cobra Beer, Coca-Cola, Design Council, Dillon Bass, Diageo, Fortnum & Mason, Glen Morangie, Guardian, Interbrew, Jabra, JVC, Johnson & Johnson, Lancome, Lynx, McCains, McVities, Nestle, Plantronics, Sainsbury’s, Shell, Tesco, Tetley, Vauxhall, Waitrose, Wella, WHSmith.
See more of Alex’s work here.

















