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Eleanor Sykes

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Illustrator at Eleanor Sykes Illustration

About

I am an illustrator currently practicing and researching in Cardiff.
My research heavily relies on fairy tales, specifically studying the feminine role within these stories and applying this to how we may live our day to day lives. Visually, the work I create uses colour and absurdity to capture the way in which I interpret the world! My practice is an investigation undertaken in the form of visual conversation and I like to comment on the mundanity of life in a curious way. It’s these moments, after all, that make us human.
I am always looking for people to collaborate with and alongside this my commissions are currently open!

When people walk by my area in the studio I often hear that my work brings them joy, which is so wonderful. It is the playfulness of my language that sparks this feeling- I think!
'The sun came out, and I felt full.' An ink painting. Two white vessles in conversation on soft green bentwood chairs. One is ceramic, the other is rugged. On the wall in between the chairs is a third white vessle showing a red bird inside. Long bits of red yarn spills out of the rugged vessle. A bold painting of a figure in a powerful stance. Standing low with her legs open, hands outstretched- she wears a headdress of the sun. A rugged overhead mask, a sad clown with a stripy collar. A figure in flight through the sky. She is riding a feather.
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