This year’s prize from the Folio Society and House of Illustration called for images to accompany love poetry from Imtiaz Dharker, Emily Dickinson and John Donne. Here are the chosen entries, and the inspiring poems
- Images courtesy of the Folio Society and House of Illustration
Imtiaz Dharker
Above: Daniel Fernández (also known as Albert Victoria) studied in Madrid at Complutense University and Escuela Superior de Dibujo Profesional. He takes influences from 19th-century art and literature, popular culture and photography
Above: Yijing Li graduated from London College of Communications and specialises in children’s book and book illustration, for both UK and China-based publishers.
Above: Mikki Lee is a Korean American illustrator and a student of Art Center College of Design. Studio Ghibli films are responsible for her love of storytelling and she hopes her illustrations will send similar messages about environmentalism, pacifism, and feminism
Top left: Sophie Sarah Sitai Kehoe was born and raised in Brunei and comes from a diverse mixed lineage of both Asian and European cultures. Her artwork is deeply inspired by her fascinations with colours and textures
Top right: Yuzhen Cai is a freelance illustrator and animator living in London Originally from China, she moved to the UK to study at Camberwell College of Arts. She creates art in both digital and manual mediums, combining flat, bold colours with handmade textures. Yuzhen studying at the Royal College of Art
Middle left: Eva Münnich is an animator and illustrator based in London who favours vibrant colours, intriguing composition and appealing characters
Middle right: Zuza Miśko is a printmaker and illustrator based in Warsaw. After graduating from the Polish National Film School in Łódź, she worked for over a decade in advertising, animation and digital illustration. Her passion for print, pottery and textiles led her to experiment with traditional media including linocut prints and linocut illustrations
Bottom left: Leonie Woods graduated from the Chelsea College of Art in 1998. She currently lives and works in east London as a freelance illustrator specialising in photomontage illustration. Her work evolves from a process of layering found images and self-generated marks and textures using digital techniques
Bottom right: Greg McIndoe (Headless Greg) is an illustrator and design writer from Glasgow in his final year at Duncan of Jordanstone College in Dundee. Juxtaposing simplified forms with contemporary colour schemes, his design work is all about abstraction
Above: Kate Bird grew up in the West Midlands. She is currently a third-year illustration student at Birmingham City University. She particularly enjoys collage and watercolour
Above: Lidiia Sargsian is Belgorod, Russia who has had a passion for illustration, drawing and painting since childhood. Lidiia likes to experiment with traditional materials such as watercolour, pastel, charcoal and to combine this with digital graphic work
Top left: Jiachen Lin is an illustrator based in Bournemouth, who focuses on narratives inspired by women and the world around us. She is also passionate about studying the relationship between people and society
Top right: Jurgita Vasiliauskaite is studying at DJCAD, University of Dundee. Jurgita creates illustrations digitally but also has a keen interest for printmaking. She explores analogue collage inspired by powerful composition and colour interaction
Bottom left: Amita Sevellaraja is a Malaysian-born illustrator currently in her third year at Falmouth University. A lover of all things whimsical, her work is filled with emotion and drama, seen through her characteristic use of vivid colours, expressive strokes and atmospheric lighting
Bottom right: Anastasia Izlesou is a multidisciplinary illustrator and designer from the UK. Using a mix of digital and traditional media, she creates vibrant work full of bold natural elements. Her inspirations range from natural sciences, literature and folklore to everyday items and kitsch objects
Above: Marina Aleph grew up in a small town in the Urals, before moving to Yekaterinburg. Marina studied graphic design at the Ural State University of Architecture and Art
Above: Han is an illustration student at University of Arts London. She focuses on the story behind the painting, and its most important elements instead of drawing skills
Above: Ewa Wiktoria Malec is a Polish illustrator living and working in London. She studied fine art at the University of Bedfordshire and Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław
Above: Yukai Du is a London-based Chinese illustrator and animation director who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2014. Her inspiration comes from impressionism’s dichotomy of layered lines and dots, combined with a love for brutalism’s simplistic geometric structures
Top left: Eleanor Hardiman is an illustrator and designer from Bristol, who paints all her illustrations in watercolour. Themes including sleep, dreams, femininity and identity are common in her work
Top right: Sophie Mildner is a German illustrator, based in Halle, who studied communication design with a focus on illustration at the Art University Burg Giebichenstein
Middle left: Sarah Perkins has been working as a collage artist since studying at Chelsea School of Art and Central St Martins 30 years ago. Initially working in analogue collage she now works digitally, layering with her own textures, painting and typography
Middle right: Siki (Siqi) Yuan is a Chinese visual artist based in London and Shanghai, studying at Camberwell College of Arts. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, she draws on her background in fashion design and illustration, to work across various media to examine aspects of personality and emotional expression
Bottom left: Manuel Šumberac was born in 1988 in Pula, Croatia. He obtained a masters in animation and new media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and makes animated films, music videos, and illustrations for children’s books and book covers
Bottom right: Georgina Smart is studying at the Arts University Bournemouth. Born and raised in Guernsey, she takes inspiration from her surroundings and is an aspiring writer, enjoying storytelling in all its forms
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