Hello, I’m Emily. My work is mainly narrative based, with a focus on lots of small details and symbolism. I particularly enjoy designing characters and exploring how they interact with their environment — it’s very important to me that I give individuality and depth to every character in a scene.
I’m fascinated by history, folklore, mythology and seemingly insignificant things. I also have a deep-rooted love of textiles and fibre crafts which I think constantly informs the way that I hone in on shape and texture, as well as try to create a sense of tangibility, within my work.
For my final term, I enjoyed pursuing a variety of different projects from illustrating children’s book covers and book illustrations to creating whimsical soft sculptures for a picture-book adaptation of "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King".
Illustration
Emily Lowton
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Close-up of a colour book illustration based off of the novel "Nights at the Circus" by Angela Carter.
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Conceptual front and back book cover designs for "Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat" by Ursula Moray Williams. Marie and her nutcracker, a soft sculpture created with a combination of crochet, sewing and embroidery for a picture-book adaptation of ‘The Nutcracker and the Mouse King’ by E.T.A. Hoffman. A double-page spread from the picture-book, featuring the seven-headed mouse king wearing individual hand-beaded crowns. Text taken from the 1835 English translation of the story. Book illustration based off of the novel "Nights at the Circus" by Angela Carter. Book illustration based off of the novel "Nights at the Circus" by Angela Carter. Illustrated portraits of two girls, inspired by antique cameos and cyanotype photography. Double page spread of a children’s picture book concept about the day in the life of a clown.