Ellie Foreman-Peck is an artist and illustrator who moved to London after graduating with a degree in illustration from the University of the West of England. Her commercial work ranges from humorous caricatures to bold editorials and prints, visualising narratives and ideas with expressive line work, collage or photomontage. The medium is chosen according to the brief’s required mood or message. As well as editorial and commercial briefs, Ellie’s practice includes painting, ink work, screen and mono printing, animation, book covers, ceramics and posters. Ellie is always searching for new ideas, drawing on nature, people and the apparently mundane. She records and sketches these ideas, some of which end up in exhibitions and in her online print shop which you can see here. Inspiration and influence come from a wide range of places, particularly the work of Hogarth for his sequential visual story telling and Gillray, George Grosz, Daumier and Ralph Steadman for their expressive use of line, lampooned characters and witty satires. She has always greatly admired the traditional Japanese woodcut prints for their story telling, colour, composition and texture along with Aubrey Beardsley for his dark and decorative depictions of narratives. Clients include: The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Economist, The New York Review of books, The Idler, Random House, Pentagram and The New Yorker. 

Starting with sketches and ideas taken in my sketchbook, I will explore the surrounding landscape and wildlife of Lanzarote. In the studio I will work these sketches up into large scale drawings and paintings that explore the details and patterns of plants and landscape in a mediation on nature.

These works will culminate in a series to be exhibited and go into my online printshop.