Aldous Eveleigh

51 images over 7 pages.

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Usage: Design

Medium: Pen and Ink, Pencil

Style: Contemporary

Subject: Buildings, Street Scene

This illustration was created for Balfour Beatty.

The illustrator: Aldous Eveleigh studied illustration and print-making at Bristol Polytechnic in the West of England. This was followed by a stint working at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre as its prop maker and then a move to London, where he designed for films, retail, trade fairs, ceramics, fashion shows and opera before spending three years at the Royal College of Art working towards a postgraduate degree in Painting. He was actively involved in the Diorama project, a groundbreaking alternative arts collective in Regent’s Park, where he founded an art gallery. He is a diverse artist working both from life and from his imagination. His observed drawing is characterised by a sense of air and space with an almost oriental economy of detail. This complexity contrasts with the apparent simplicity of two ongoing portrait series: the flat colour carpet portraits called ‘Dead Famous Artists’ and his touring exhibition of drawings of the poet Fernando Pessoa (one of which has been used for the cover of the current US Penguin edition of Pessoa’s work). He also teaches at Middlesex University and also visiting lecturer at, among others, St Martin’s and Chelsea schools of art. He was nominated in 2001 and 2004 for illustration for the UK’s D&AD awards. Recently, Aldous has started making stop-motion films of his painting, shown in film festivals worldwide.