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Interview with: Rohan Eason

08 Wednesday Jul 2020

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Rohan Eason Interview

Rohan Eason Interview

When did you first think about art as something you wanted to do? Were you encouraged or discouraged by family, friends, teachers, mentors?

My Parents are both artist, my grandad was a sign writer and my uncle was a Royal Academician, so there was certainly the seed of an idea, that art was something in- spiring and imaginative, something I could delve into even from a young age. I remember in primary school I was drawing fully formed figures and faces, while the other kids were still not joining the sky to the ground, and that was because I was so interested in looking and recreating what I saw. I remember my teachers at High School never knew what to do with me, which way to steer me.

Rohan Eason Illustration

Rohan Eason Illustration

They were brought in one day to the heads office, with my art teachers, and the discussion, was as to what i wanted to be, an artist or an illustrator. The idea I couldn’t be both didn’t make sense to me,  that there was even a difference didn’t seem something I would ever concern myself with. To      be an artist was my dream, it was the poetic journey through torment and discovery, love and hate, as an artist I could make illustrations or artworks, they were one of the same. Its an age old argument, and  I think I will always think of myself as an artist first, but the work I make professionally is illustration, and thats the difference.

What kind of kid were you? Where did you grow up? What were your influences?

I was born in the industrial city of Middlesborough, on the same road as the football stadium, Ayresome Park Road. It was a great community, every- one knew everyone, doors were open all day. Then we moved to a small town in Lincolnshire, and everyone said I talked funny. I got very quiet and introverted, and didn’t really enjoy the whole school thing. I think most kids are bullied, and i wasn’t any different, bullying comes in different forms, and I just happened to be the sensitive type that couldn’t really deal with the constant push and pull of friendship circles. My parents both worked so I would often not go into school, instead staying home and drawing or reading, anything to not face a school day.

But those days made me more interested in look- ing at life from a removed viewpoint, in a way there was no other way I could look at it, as I had removed myself. When i reached art school I had already decided that there were two ways to live your life, take part, or take notes, my artworks were my notes. A constant running dialogue, a description of what the other people did, but not what I did.

When I left University with an art degree, everything fell apart, life came flooding back in, and I couldn’t cope. The idea that I would go on just making art, came crashing down, when I couldn’t afford food or rent. Music got me through this time, companion- ship with my band mates helped me find a structure and drive again, and I was finally creating something that related to my life, while I took part in it.

From Rocker to Artist, how did that happen? And how did you progress?

It was around 2002, I was playing lead guitar in a band called Cyclones, having left University with a BA HONS in Fine Art, and having not really done much artistically for a while, other than I would sometimes do a quick sketch. The girlfriend of the lead singer, Rina, saw a drawing one day, and suggested I come see her boss, who owned a high end fashion boutique in Notting Hill. The owner Annette Olivieri, decided I had a little some- thing, and chucked me a bag in white kid leather, “tattoo that” she said. So I found pens that would work on leather, and I tattooed the bag. The draw- ing was black and white, and involved very detailedflowers and hair. Annette was impressed and gave me a leather jacket to do, so I did, this time with a horned girl, feather wings and flowers centre back. From there I went on to create fabric prints and artworks for Annette’s label for the next 2 years. I did private commissions, one was sent to Vogue editor Anna Wintour, and later created my own glove collection, with the first pair of dress leather gloves going to Yoko Ono. Two shoe collections followed and a spattering of other commissions, but I believed my career lay in fashion. This didn’t last long, fashion is not the nicest industry to work in, and I quickly felt like I was back in school, the bitchy back stabbing, the creative theft, and the broken promises, left me a thoroughly broken man. The upside was the pens I used for the leather, Rotring Rapidograph became my pens of choice, and the style I developed in this period with it’s intricacies and magical detail, and obsessive qualities became my illustrative style. My first children’s book came soon after I quit fashion, a collaboration with the great writer Geoff Cox, and music mogul Stuart Souter, saw a wonderful return to children’s books of old. Dark and frightening, with a psychedelic undertone that resonated with the peers around me, Anna and the Witch’s Bottle was critically acclaimed, released through Black- maps Press, it was a beautiful cloth bound hard- back, and it finally brought me attention for my artwork.

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ARe wE craZy enOUgh Yet?

15 Monday Jan 2018

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Getting work as an illustrator is an art in itself. I read this article today “Majority of illustrators don’t earn enough to live from, new survey shows” http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/creative-business/majority-of-illustrators-dont-earn-enough-live-from-new-survey-shows/

I realized this fact for myself back in the early 80’s when I made the switch to being an art director, all the while creating art for my job and my own pleasure. This went on for 2 decades until I left my job as Senior Creative Director and art department head at Warner Bros Syndicated TV. I banked enough money to pursue my goal of being an illustrator. However it still is not an easy task. I continue to struggle with this daily. Along the way I bought, renovated and sold homes in Los Angeles which ultimately led to becoming a real estate agent…albeit a creative one which now supports my artistic endeavors and frees me up to explore art and illustration deeply.

What I’ve come to terms with is there are very few illustrators who can support themselves on art alone, and there’s nothing bad about that. In fact it may even help them become more rounded as a business person and more social.

 

03 Monday Apr 2017

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For those of you who don’t know Zaha’s work here is a reprint from Arch Daily. What is especially relevant to us as artists is how she started building her ideas in architectural masterpieces. The process is one of discovery which is relevant any form of artwork. What we do at the highest level is not paint-by-numbers, it is exploring the possibilities from all angles…literally and figuratively. I’ve found that the most I explore my tools and my ideas the stronger they become. I encourage you to do the same. Read about Zaha and strive to be great!

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE, RA (Arabic: زها حديد‎‎ Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. She received the UK’s most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in 2015 she became the first woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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A year after her untimely passing, we take a look back on one of the hallmarks of Zaha Hadid’s career as an architect: her sketches. In October we wrote about how her paintings influenced her architecture. Now, we examine her most emblematic sketches and the part they played in the initial formal exploration of her design process.

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Terminus Multimodal Hoenheim Nord1 2001. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects

Terminus Multimodal Hoenheim Nord1 2001. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects
 
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Phaeno Science Centre 2005. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects

Phaeno Science Centre 2005. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects
 

Drawings, whether done by hand or digitally, are the result of a personal, intimate process of thinking through a project and setting a path for the general development of the design. Possessing different characteristics and intensities, each sketch is a reflection of the author’s thoughts–acting as both a kind of signature and the theoretical seed of a larger process. Some architects use sketches to define details and create their design from that starting point, some use the drawing itself to determine the form of a project, and other architects draw the context in order to imagine the specific location of their project.

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Rosenthal Center for Contempoary Art 2003 . Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects

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Rosenthal Center for Contempoary Art 2003 . Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects
 

Zaha’s exceptional, unique sketches don’t have much to do with concrete visions of what a project will eventually be. On the contrary, her drawings are profoundly influenced by her admiration for artistic abstraction. The beauty lies in the formal liberty that Hadid mines as she approaches what will eventually become her buildings. The drawings depict formal exercises, spatial conceptualizations, compositions, construction systems, structures, or contextual relationships (among other things). They are an invitation to use the liberty gifted to us by the act of drawing.

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Phaeno Science Centre 2005. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects

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This Week In The Arts: The Archives

31 Friday Mar 2017

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As we go through our “archive spring cleaning we wanted to highlight some of our more interesting interviews. The PodCast will be a regular feature on our site moving forward with interviews and views that will entertain and enlighten.


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The New Modernists of Illustration Define The California Spirit

08 Wednesday Mar 2017

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I’m prejudice.

When I saw this notice I was excited because I’m an Art Center Grad and to see where the school and it’s students are heading gives me a thrill and reminds me of all those late nights or all-nighters I spent trying to master being an illustrator.

So I’m reprinting this article and giving a boost however big to my fellow ACers in the hopes they achieve their goals!

“Self Portrait” by artist and illustrator Patrick Hruby. March 06, 2017

New Modernists of Illustration Featured in Land of Enchantment Exhibition Organized by ArtCenter College of Design

Patrick Hruby, Loris Lora, Ellen Surrey and Alexander Vidal Define the California Spirit for the 21stCentury

 

March 8, 2017 through August 19, 2017

A fresh crop of Modernists of Illustration defining the California spirit for the 21st Century are featured in Land of Enchantment, an exhibition organized by ArtCenter College of Design opening Wednesday, March 8, 2017 and continuing through August 19, 2017. The vibrant graphic work of four recent ArtCenter alumni; Patrick Hruby, Loris Lora, Ellen Surrey and Alexander Vidal, leaders of the New Modernists art movement, will be on exhibition in the Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall in the College’s Fine Art and Illustration building at 870 South Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, Calif., 91105.

An opening reception with the artists on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., is free and open to the public. Admission is always free to the Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall located just one mile south of downtown Pasadena, and a short walk from Metro’s Gold Line Fillmore station.

“Green Parrots” by illustrator Alexander Vidal.

Land of Enchantment features the innovative work of Patrick Hruby, Loris Lora, Ellen Surrey and Alexander Vidal. Paying homage to the legendary American Modernist, Alexander Girard, the works offer a dramatic departure from what is usually considered traditional illustration. The bold and playful work represents a new form of illustration in partnership with technology and its limitless possibilities.

Visitors will experience illustration as environment since the work adopts an unexpected scale and plays with mood and emotion on multiple surfaces such as products, interiors and as home décor. The premise for the exhibition is to show illustration in its new form, surface design, and celebrate the specialization recently launched at ArtCenter College of Design within the Illustration department chaired by Ann Field.

The work of freelance artist and illustrator Patrick Hruby has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author and illustrator of ABC is for Circus, a children’s board book published by Ammo Books in 2010. The book celebrates the colorful and festive world of the circus through each letter of the alphabet. Natural Wonders is a coloring book by Hruby that features forests, flora and fauna.

Los Angeles based freelance illustrator and 2014 graduate of ArtCenter College of Design, Loris Lora has had her work published in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as well. In addition, her artwork has been featured in galleries across the globe. Her book, Eventually Everything Connects, published by Nobrow Press, was a project she started while a student at ArtCenter. The book highlights the relationships and connections of creatives during the California Modernism movement, an innovative and exciting period in design.

“Betty-Drapper” by illustrator and designer Ellen Surrey.


Ellen Surrey
 is a Los Angeles based illustrator and designer. She earned her degree from ArtCenter College of Design in 2014. Her primary sources of inspiration come from old Hollywood, mid-century design and vintage treasures. She finds beauty in the past and incorporates it into something contemporary. While most illustrators these days do their work in Photoshop, she likes to do most of her work traditionally. She primarily works in gouache, a medium she loves because of its flexibility and history in illustration. Her clients Include AMMO Books, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Google and The Wall Street Journal.

Before starting his career in illustration, Alexander Vidal studied cultural anthropology, and spent time living in Africa and Asia. Travel and exploration continue to drive his work. His clients have included adidas, The Wildlife Conservation Society, Smithsonian Magazine, and the California Academy of Sciences. So Many Feet, his children’s board book about animal adaptations, will be released by Abrams this May.

Land of Enchantment is made possible in part through the generosity of global design manufacturer Herman Miller.

WHAT:
Land of Enchantment features the innovative and vibrant graphic work of
Patrick Hruby, Loris Lora, Ellen Surrey and Alexander Vidal.

WHERE:
ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall
870 South Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, Calif. 91105

WHEN:
Exhibition: March 8 through August 19, 2017
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 8 at 5 p.m.

HOW:
Admission to the Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall is always free and open to the public.

About the Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall In 2014, ArtCenter College of Design opened a new home for two of its dynamic visual arts programs—Fine Art and Illustration—at the College’s South Campus in Pasadena. Renovation of the former U.S. Postal Service property was made possible in part due to the generosity of the Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation, providing a dramatic atrium space (1,260 square feet) in the center of the building to showcase the work of ArtCenter students, alumni and visiting artists through a rotating series of exhibitions. The collaborative Hutto-Patterson Exhibition committee includes administrators, faculty and students. The committee’s goal is to help students understand the nature of being a practicing artist and professional curator, as well as apprehend a larger worldview by learning how a gallery generates dialogue with the broader public. Woven into the curriculum, exhibitions are accompanied by public lectures and special events. In keeping with ArtCenter’s efforts to increase access, affordability and appreciation of art and design in our communities, the exhibition hall is always free and open to the public.

About ArtCenter College of Design Founded in 1930 and located in Pasadena, California, ArtCenter College of Design is a global leader in art and design education. ArtCenter offers 11 undergraduate and seven graduate degrees in a wide variety of industrial design disciplines as well as visual and applied arts. In addition to its top-ranked academic programs, the College also serves members of the Greater Los Angeles region through a highly regarded series of year-round educational programs for all ages and levels of experience. Renowned for both its ties to industry and social impact initiatives, ArtCenter is the first design school to receive the United Nations’ Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status. Throughout the College’s long and storied history, ArtCenter alumni have had a profound impact on popular culture, the way we live and important issues in our society.

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SUZANNE ALLSION’S GIMME SHELTER

08 Sunday Mar 2015

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Today Havi and I attended Woofstock at Roxbury Park in Beverly Hills. We took our two Goldens, Atticus and April Snow and met our friends Phyllis and Frank and their dog Harry. There were all types of dogs and owners there as well as plenty of dogs and puppies needing homes. The weather was terrific and the vibe was great. One of the booths we stopped at was Pet Orphans of Southern California They are out in the SF Vally and are performing a great services for our furry friends. In the booth as well was super photographer Suzanne Allison who put together a marvelous book called Gimme Shelter.The book features Suzanne’s great photography of celebrities and their pets.

  • A four year labor of love the book not only contains beautiful photos of celebrities and their pets it will also feature friends, family, neighbors and anyone who shares or has shared the experience of loving a pet. It also includes some heartwarming stories and facts about taking care of animals. 
    Suzanne Allison has had a camera in her hands since she was 13 years old. Her outstanding work in concert 11025661_800137693405659_5526552612634767151_nphotography speaks for itself, but her real gift is capturing touching moments with people and their pets. Suzanne believes that these beautiful creatures are the real stars of “Gimme Shelter”. “The greatest accomplishment we can achieve with this book will be opening peoples eyes to the overwhelming numbers of pets that are abandoned and how it IS possible to greatly reduce the number of dogs and cats in shelters by doing THREE things…. SPAY, NEUTER, MICROCHIP…. educate your children. Teach them that pets are not toys. They are to be treated kindly with respect and love… Give love, Get love… pretty simple.”
    To learn more about how you can help out go to Suzanne’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/GimmeShelterXO/timeline
    …and if you want to see killer photography go to http://suzanneallison.com/suzanneallison.html and check out Suzanne’s work

Finnish Artist: Riikka Laasko

06 Friday Mar 2015

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I love the color and clean architectural lines in Riikka’s work. A bit of whimsy and a storyline are infused in the imagery.  For more  about Riika go to here

This article and profile is running on Eye on Design. Info below.

Hey look, everyone’s favorite professional association for design has its own blog.

For the past 100 years, AIGA has celebrated, lauded, applauded, championed, cheered, awarded, supported, and (most of all) loved great design. In the next century we expect to see a lot more, so we’re turning a well-trained eye on the best new work from emerging and established designers alike in the AIGA Eye on Design blog.

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Ebola Exposed: How I surf the net and found something relevant

27 Tuesday Jan 2015

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e17679939e7bf20037b9d11a13fa9869I couldn’t sleep this morning so I got up and surfed the net and came to a site run by an illustrator named Olusola Akinseye who hails from Nigeria. Interested I look at his work and was struck by the cultural differences as well as the similarities to my work in the children’s area. As I probed further I found that Olusola had illustrated a presentation for Ebola Exposed! It is a free illustrated publication commissioned in the wake of the West Africa Ebola outbreak.

The goal of the booklet is to provide basic information about the Ebola Virus Disease using colorful cartoon illustrations. According to Olusola the initial awareness is cooling off but sadly there is still need for care and concern. So I’m passing this info along because it literally illustrates something important to everyone in a clever and inviting way. Check out the Eboloa Exposed

In addition check out Olusola’s art on Behance. Look art cuts across countries like a hot knife thru butter. The look might be different, the colors may take on different combinations and the content may be regional but the creativity behind the art is the same. We artists are all trying to use our visions to illustrate our point-of-view about the world around us. Check out this terrific piece of art below created by Olusola.1

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Dia De Los Muertes Photo Collection

06 Tuesday Jan 2015

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This gallery contains 15 photos.


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Storygrams™, my latest endeavor

19 Friday Sep 2014

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Last night the Jewish Community Foundation celebrated the 25th anniversary of it’s CEO Marvin Schotland’s tenure and the Foundation’s 60th …

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