Emily Lowton
Illustration
![Illustration of tiger's face](/site/assets/files/12401/leadcircustiger.jpg)
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".
![Fron and back covers of Gobbolino the Witch's Cat featuring images of cat](/site/assets/files/12409/gobbolinocat.jpg)
![Knitted doll of girl holding soldier](/site/assets/files/12408/marienutcracker.jpg)
![Book spread with photo of knitted mouse with seven heads on left and text on right](/site/assets/files/12410/kingnutcracker.jpg)
![Illustration of girl looking in mirror and someone behind her writing in book](/site/assets/files/12411/circusmirror.jpg)
![Illustration of many different objects on table sent flying by ruff-wearing pig](/site/assets/files/12412/circusflying.jpg)
![Two cameo illustrations of young girls](/site/assets/files/12413/cameoportraits.jpg)
![Picturebook spread with clown and elephant on left, giant cat and clown on right](/site/assets/files/12414/clownpicturebook.jpg)