Laurent Moreau

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Laurent Moreau's illustration has inspired me to try and introduce portraits back into my work - as they are my favourite thing to draw. I have already considered drawing images of my friends as they make up a large part of my life in Bournemouth and to layer them in such a way would create a really interesting composition. My idea is to use google map style images like the ones in the bicycle portraits to act as a mask on top of simplistic stylised portraits. 

Stan Engelbrecht & Nic Grobler - Bicycle Portraits.

Stan Engelbrecht & Nic Grobler published 162 portraits and stories of the over 500 portraits of cyclists they’ve photographed during their 2 year journey around South Africa.

 They made 3 books, each contains a different 54 stories, and also two essays each by local South African and major international cycling figures, including pieces by Noble prize-winning author JM Coetzee, and the godfather of mountain biking, Gary Fisher. 

The books are designed by Gabrielle Guy and they have also collaborated with celebrated South African artist Gabrielle Raaff to create an individual hand-painted watercolor map, based on Google Maps, to indicate the location of each of the portraits.


I think that the idea of using the image that is displayed on google maps is really effective as it reflects how the use of maps has changed over the course of time. I would like to experiment with drawing in this style and how these types of images can be layered over images or drawings of the place. I think that this layering technique could reintroduce the idea of mould into my work and help create the look of the petri dish. The lines and small island like shapes of the birds eye view map are perfect to reflect the irregular shapes that occur in a petri dish. 

Andrew Power

Andrew Powers work stood out to me because the composition was similar to that of the work I looked at by Marina Muun, I really like the way the smooth circular shape of the image contrasts with the industrial subject matter within it.

I also like the use of predominantly primary colours in blocks as it gives a un and child like feel to the images which makes them fun and easy to look at. I think as maps can be very busy looking a use of simple colours will make it easier on the eye and more fun.