Viva Brighton Issue #38 April 2016

this month’s cover artist
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This month’s cover is a vibrant, multi-layered
pattern extravaganza, courtesy of illustrator
Camilla Perkins. Camilla uses a combination of
hand-drawn elements to create her bold patterns,
which are then digitally manipulated to form the
final images. She says, “I tend to use acetate that I
have painted on and then scratched through with
a knife, so it creates a hand-printed texture but
in less time.”
The dolls’ house idea gave her four rooms worth
of wallpaper, carpets, furniture and flooring to
play with, plus a starry night sky, a hilly backdrop
and a visiting leopard… we’ll come back to
him. Her patterns are inspired by “old pieces of
clothing that I find in antique shops, or visiting
fabric shops like The Cloth House in London,”
and she’s especially drawn to African, Indian and
Scandinavian folk art.
Camilla has been chosen as one of this year’s Pick
Me Up selects, hand-picked by a panel of industry
experts to have her work showcased at the graphic
arts festival which opens at Somerset House on
the 21st. “I’m really excited to be in Pick Me Up
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