Artist Feature Rebecca Price Apr 29 2014

Today’s artist feature is our talented Rebecca Price. We love her beautiful watercolours here at Advocate Art.  The delicate use of colour and tone within her characters work really well with children books. Have a look below at some of her work and check out her online portfolio too. Although I grew up on the outskirts of London, as a child I was fascinated by Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which my German mother read to me. She was always working to illustration deadlines and as a child I used to imitate her, producing my own artwork, packing it up, and taking it to the post office….. only to be disappointed that I couldn’t actually send it off to her publisher! Later, after studying painting at the Slade School of Art and animation at Central St Martins, I exhibited widely as an artist, mainly in London and around Britain, but also in Switzerland, Los Angeles, Kassel and Vienna. I received grants from the British Council, Pro Helvetia, BAA and South East Arts and have worked as an artist in residence in many schools. I have always loved using colour to express atmosphere and emotion but as my paintings became larger and more abstract, I began to miss drawing real objects, and this has led me back to illustration. In 2008 my first picture book (‘Toby and the Flood’) was published, but I also worked previously for ten years as a weekly illustrator for a children’s comic. When I’m not working, my favourite things are cycling between flowering hedgerows, and playing the violin in my string quartet. I particularly enjoy drawing children, and find having a daughter of my own helps keep me in touch with the way children’s minds work.