Whilst in York I knew I wanted to go to Mark Hearld's Lumber room. As one of my favourite illustrators it has been on my list of places to go for a while. The actual room was full of weird and wonderful things such as taxidermy birds (ew), rocking horses and odd little toys that have an obvious influence on his work. His sketchbooks were particularly fascinating to me, I aspire to be more care free and less constrained in my sketchbook and the ones in the lumber room were so playful and embodied the idea of experimentation. This has also made me think about what materials I may want to try moving forward, lino print is something I have been meaning to have a go at for a while.
I found York to be an inspiring place to exist - especially its wildlife and architecture.
I am a bit of a sucker for gift shops, especially those that sell picture books, so as a treat to myself for finishing cop I bought Nicola Davis' 'A First Book of Nature' illustrated by Mark Hearld and a cute little concertina fox card to put in my bedroom. I have taken the same book out of the library before and fell in love so I couldn't walk away when I saw it again! My favourite page is in the Winter scene with the fox, I really like the contrast of the orange against the blues/greys and the general composition of the page. Also, I really like foxes.
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