Rebecca Parker Research

Rebecca Parker is a self-taught Digital Photographer and Photoshop Artist based in the Midlands, England. She experiments with  concepts and styles and specialises in creating unique feminine, dreamy and artistic portraits and fashion photography.

She conveys subtle emotions and feeling through my images and will sometimes add new image backgrounds and other elements to her images with Photoshop using digital manipulation techniques.

She feels that all of the images  she has producedare a showcase as to what she can achieve. She is influenced mostly by classical artists and the British landscape and has a deep fascination with history, psychology and nature.

Information from rebecca-parker.co.uk

Julian Opie Research

Julian Opie is a contemporary English sculptor, painter, printmaker and installation artist. He was born in 1958 in London and raised in Oxford. He studied at Goldsmiths College (1979-1982) under Michael Craig-Martin, who he briefly work as an assistant for. His style was brought into the public eye when he was asked to design the cover for the British band Blur's best of album.

In his portraiture, the human face is characterised by black outlines with flat areas of colour, and minimalised details, to the extent that an eye can become just the black circle of the pupil, and sometimes a head is represented by a circle with a space where the neck would be. In this way, Julian Opie tries to present the complexities of the human form by reducing it to its mere basics.

His work is held in most major museum collections, including The Tate Gallery, London, and MoMA, New York, and he has completed major public commisions in cities all over the world.

Information from artrepublic.com and tate.org.uk

Blur: The Best Of album cover

Nani Serrano Research

Nani Serrano was born in Alcoi, a Spanish town in Alicante. She studied graphic design at the School of Arts and Crafts of Alcoi and her first professional works were developed in Valencia.

In 1996 she moved to Barcelona, where she became interested in illustration. She consideres herself a versatile artist, and moulds her ideas constantly, which are always in constant movement.

She describes her work:

"Collage, airbrushing and illustration by computer are usual in my work. With the collage I create a fancy-dress ball of distorted realities. The airbrush shoots pastel shades making blush touches. It softens, embellishes. It makes fiery colours, burning and blazing. And with my computer I create an animated world inhabited by fantastic characters." 

Linn Olofsdotter Research

Linn Olofsdotter is a Swedish illustrator and mixed media artist. She decided to become an artist in early twenties, after being exposed to art at a very young age. After a few years of working on motion graphics and advertising, she decided to pursue a career as an illustrator. 

Her colorful illustrations are often described as emotional, surreal and a little naughty. These qualities in her work brought her a number of clients in the Fashion, Advertising and Editorial fields such as Samsung, Oilily, La Perla and Bon Magazine.



Title: The Bouquet
Client: Samsung
Description: This illustration was used to promote Samsung's new televisions in Scandinavia. The image demonstrates the importance of black in an image in order to bring out the colours.