What do Alban Low and Ellie Breeze have in common?
Alban Low is a professional illustrator, working a signature calligraphic style for album covers and specialising in impromptu portraits of jazz musicians. He tells me how he has two distinct approaches to his work, depending on the commission. He also describes how he was once invited to sketch in the dissecting room at Guy’s Hospital. This episode is not for the feint-hearted.
Ellie Breeze paints in oils, drawing on material from old family photograph albums to capture lost moments with humour and insight. In this episode I learn the fate of a large double portrait of the bride and groom at their wedding in the 1970s. Her work has been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries and has also been shortlisted for the Marmite Prize for Painting.
And what do Alban and Ellie have in common? They both work figuratively in 2d.
Links:
Something To Do With Art – Alban Low
Something To Do With Art – Ellie Breeze
Next week: What do Ellie Breeze and Lizz Brady have in common?
