Illustrator in Residence for Nuneaton Museum!

Here is the press release from Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, announcing me as illustrator in residence to interpret their Inuit collection. The work will be displayed in an exhibition in February 2015, and I'm so excited to get to work on it:

Arts Council grant success for Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery

Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery has been successful in its bid for money from Arts Council England.

Arts Council England has awarded a ‘Grants for the Arts’ fund to support ‘Tales from the Tundra.’ For this project  the Museum will work with professional artist Jhinuk Sarkar to interpret aspects of its Inuit collection, culminating in a major temporary exhibition during Spring 2015. The funding will also support original artwork, interactives and learning materials, public events and talks.

Illustrative Artist Jhinuk Sarkar stated:

“I'm really excited to work on a series of new illustrations that will hopefully inspire visitors to look at the stories behind Nuneaton Museum's extraordinary Inuit collection.

I know that sometimes one drawing or illustration can tell many more stories than a single written sentence, so I will highlight this using the fascinating objects the Museum holds on Inuit culture. By doing this I can help to bring the collection to life in a vibrant and engaging way for visitors of all ages.”

Councillor Ian Lloyd, Portfolio Holder for Arts & Leisure stated:

"I congratulate the Museum team on their success in gaining funding for this important project.  I feel sure that the artist in residence will provide a vital and exciting link to interpreting this fascinating element of the Museum collection as well as providing a valuable insight into Inuit culture.”

For more information on this exciting project please contact Matt Johnson, Museum Outreach Officer, on 024 7635 0720 or email museum@nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk

I have already been inspired by objects from the Scott Polar museum in Cambridge - such as this illustrated scrimshaw artefact above - such precision!

Stay tuned for further posts here on my progress during the project research stages.

Thanks,

Jhinuk

A place to buy my work online!

Please visit my new little shop online where you can buy my screen-prints and original artworks at the click of a button...I'll make sure you all know when new things are added to my stock. Here's one of the pieces, 'My Kind's Your Kind' :

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the work in my shop or any ideas you have for commissions. And you can also reach the shop link from my website.

Lastly, don't forget you can sign up to my mailing list, I try not to pester you too often with it, promise.

Thanks for looking!

A Royal Week

This week had a huge Royal influence!

I delivered a workshop influenced by the Sensing Spaces exhibition. We were based in the learning rooms at the Royal Academy of Arts. It was great to work with a group of young adults from the Leighton Project to produce body wear influenced by the exhibition - and then walk into the galleries to become part of the architectural installations - it was almost like we were on a film set location!

Carnival Queen Crown illustration by Jhinuk Sarkar

My ideas for workshops are broad and very much tailored to the group I am delivering them to, though not strictly based on illustration techniques, this workshop used thinking and ideas involved in illustration practices such as creating characters and narratives. Visit my website to learn more about the workshops I can deliver.

Today my postcards sold in the Secret Postcard sale at Royal College of Art. I love seeing the array of work submitted by artists at all stages of their careers and hearing about the stories from the RCA blog, from the Paula Rego's to the Yoko Ono's and this year I hear that Jarvis Cocker even submitted imagery! Now it's sold I'll give you a peek at this little chap who I illustrated on one of my postcards this year:

Squirrelling Away illustration by Jhinuk Sarkar

As always, thanks for looking, and get in touch if you think of any illustrations you would like in your world.

Jhinuk

Santa statistics!

Happy Christmas to all you lovely people who have supported my illustrations and art over the last year. To all you buyers, commissioners and promoters - THANK YOU!

Here's an illustration I created for Ampp3d that went live today, for those of you interested in some interesting statistics about the old man in red.

Santa in Numbers by Jhinuk Sarkar

Though I'm signing off for the next couple of days to concentrate on devouring much cheese, port and mince pies, I am available from Boxing Day to contact if you have any enquiries. Keep an eye out on my website for some new work appearing soon...


Until next time!


Jhinuk

Artist friends reunited...

In a prelude to the exhibition I will be a part of next year (with my very talented and dear old friends), I wanted to share our lovely little press release ready to be shared far and wide....and a piece of my work related from the archives of Paperfig (as I am in the midst of producing the work for the exhibition!). Thanks to lovely Panna Parmar for creating this enticing write-up. And I hope you will all put the private view date in your diaries now and pop along before you engage yourselves with your romantic affairs or avoiding it like the plague....We will be sure to make it worth your while! :

Hello? I Love you?

Forthcoming exhibition at House Gallery, Camberwell

Ten years after graduating from Norwich School of Art, five artists specialising in print making, painting and illustration have come together to give you their take on the L word. Hello? I love you? Is an exhibition of work by artists Stephen Hennessy, Matthew Gent, Panna Parmar, Jhinuk Sarkar and Samuel Potts at the House Gallery in South East London. Since graduating, illustrator Jhinuk Sarkar has exhibited and taken part in residencies around the world. Yorkshire born, Samuel Potts specialises in portraiture commissions and regularly exhibits in the UK. Printmaker Matthew Gent creates detailed limited edition woodcuts as one off gig posters and gallery commission pieces. Stephen Hennessy is a painter who transforms his observations from his travels into paintings and exhibits internationally. Panna Parmar has exhibited her colourful screen prints and etchings in London. Coming together, these very different artists will offer their take on what the Beatles may say is all you need; Love.

Heart of Glass by Jhinuk Sarkar

The exhibition starts on February 14^th 2014 for two weeks at the House Gallery in Camberwell.

Private View will be held at the gallery from 7pm on Thursday 14^th February 2014.

To find out more about each artist please visit their websites:

Samuel Potts www.sampotts.co.uk

Matthew Gent www.handmadeandheartless.co.uk www.handmadeandheartless.bigcartel.com

Jhinuk Sarkar cargocollective.com/paperfig

Stephen Hennessy www.stephen-hennessy.com

Panna Parmar www.pannaparmar.com

If you are lucky, I'll give you a sneak peak in the lead up to the show early next year....but I hope you will share and see you there! Thanks, Jhinuk.

Jhinuk

Did I mention....?

.......that I also plan, create, organise and deliver illustration workshops? They are not strictly illustration in the sense of sitting people down and making them draw with pencil and paper, I like to get people involved and show off how versatile illustration can be!

Take a look at the illustration workshops page on my website to find out more.

And if you have an idea for a workshop or you'd like to get in touch and find out more about how I can work these into different creative settings, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks, Jhinuk

New website!

This week is a sneaky peek at my new-look, simple website...click here to see my work in one place! You'll find everything from buildings to food, people, masks ...and hats!

Keep looking on the website as a new section of one-off originals and screen-prints for sale will be added in the next two weeks - just in case you take part in shopping for the impending festive season...

In other news, a bunch of lovely creative friends and I will be organising a small exhibition next February at House Gallery in Camberwell. Stay tuned here for more news on the work that will be featured by me and my very very talented friends.

A local commission...

Just framing up a recent commission this week of the Nag's Head in Walthamstow, it has a keen following in amongst the locals that enjoy a good watering hole!

The Nags Head Pub in E17

And now on to framing other prints and other creative projects, including illustrating an Italian scene! Feel free to email me with any requests, until next time.

Black & White Town

Thanks to all you lovely buyers that purchased a print from me last week.

Digital prints will be available shortly if any are interested. Please contact me directly if you should wish.

Whilst gathering all portfolio images into groups and listening to The Doves in the studio, I discovered a bunch of black and white images I illustrated from my travels to New Zealand and Australia. Including the wonderfully strange Quokka, only found on Rottnest Island off the coast of Fremantle in Western Australia!

This has inspired more black and white illustrations to add to my new online portfolios and preparing me for what I might be inspired by in my upcoming travels planned to visit Dubai and India!

Here's a reminder of those illustrations, until next week,

Jhinuk

Kiwi Bird

Quokka

Tui Bird

Boxing Clever

Prints for sale and cheese!

The last few weeks I've been preparing images for screen printing more...so watch this space over the coming weeks. My first few 'Alright Treacle?' are ready to go to some of your lovely homes!

Alright Treacle? Screen printed image by Jhinuk Sarkar

Three limited edition screen prints are here for sale, sizes are approximately 25 x 25cm and at the bargain price of £40 + P&P. Contact me via email to make your purchase, but hurry, these are few and far between!

Also, you have the opportunity for a short time to WIN one of my prints of Griff House in Warwickshire! Linked to the forthcoming event 'A Ploughed Heart' by the fantastic Playwright Vanessa Oakes, Griff House is revamped using my fountain pen and richly coloured inks.

Griff House illustrated by Vanessa Oakes for 'The Ploughed Heart' event by Vanessa Oakes

If you would like this lovely giclée print on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper on your wall, visit Vanessa's blog here.

Vanessa kindly posted a little biography about me and my inspirations surrounding illustration, therefore, for the weekend, I thought I would remind you all how much I love cheese:

'Cheese, Glorious Cheese' illustrated in inks by by Jhinuk Sarkar

Please get in touch with any of your illustration needs (there is always a need for illustration), and in the mean time have a great weekend!

Jhinuk