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

Websites and Secrets

This week, apart from pulling together some imagery ready to  start screen-printing with I created three exclusive illustrations for the Royal College of Art's Secret Postcard exhibition coming up in March!

Always exciting to have my work featured alongside top artists! It is a secret, so I'm not going to reveal the illustrations until they have opened the exhibition....but this image I made on a trip to New York once might give you some clues as to the theme I used this year...

And also, slightly un-work related, I have signed myself up to a bike ride from London for the arts organisation I work for. It's definitely inspired me to draw more bicycles next week! You can find out more here and so I thought today this illustration might also be apt:

I saw a great band called Local Natives last night and they have also inspired me to create some illustrations of mask designs I'll be making over the next couple of weeks.

Aside from tying up a few commissions of design work I've started to get to grips with my own website design which is hopefully going to be a clean, smart place filled with illustrations made by me! More on this next week and in the mean time have a happy Friday!

Jhinuk x

Large update, studio move and George Eliot Illustrations

Since last October a big upheaval of my freelance work has occurred (in a good way!)

A few things since my duo show in Crouch End that ended in December:

• I gave an 'Artist's Talk' at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery in November
• I delivered some illustration workshops to Canonbury School in Islington for House of Illustration
• My solo exhibition 'From Home to Homes Afar' at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery finished in the first week of January
• I've been working on some projects involving more design work...more to follow soon!
• I was given a lovely little commission from a playwriter developing a new play and an accompanying series of events around Warwickshire. The play is based on the writer George Eliot...here's a sneak preview of one of the illustrations I created for the invites! Please visit the writer Vanessa Oakes' blog to find out more about the project.

Griff House in Warwickshire

Finally I moved in to Miller's Junction this month to hopefully start screen printing more images using the Print Club London facilities next door...watch this space and in the mean time, have a good week all!

Brewing ideas private view on Halloween!

Hello all, coming soon, my work will be on display in London! Here are the details:

Brewing Ideas is an exhibition of new work by illustrators Juliet Thomas & Jhinuk Sarkar.

Juliet lives in Crouch End and in this exhibition she has taken inspiration from local Crouch End life, film & music to create a series of paintings, screen prints & drawings.

Jhinuk is based in Walthamstow and has used food as the main source of ideas for this selection of work. She has used paint, pencils, collage and inks to create the illustrations on display.

The exhibition runs from the 1st of November to the 1st of December at quirky Crouch End coffee shop The Haberdashery. 22 Middle Lane, Crouch End. London. N8 8PL

(Recently voted 'Best Coffee Shop in London' by London Lifestyle Awards!)

Prints will be priced from £15 - £55. Come along and get your Christmas presents in early!

Please join Juliet and Jhinuk for their Private View from 7-9pm on Wednesday 31st October where of course drinks will be served.......

Check out the illustrators' websites to see more.

www.juliepoolie.com

www.paper-fig.blogspot.co.uk

and for your viewing pleasure, here are some more sneak previews of my work in the exhibition:

Alright Treacle?

Seasons Greetings

Fun Guys

Pleasant Pheasant

Turkish Delight

Please come to our Private View from 7-9pm for an opportunity to start buying some Christmas presents early! Spread the word -  all are most welcome - even in your Halloween costumes...

Cheers for your support,

Jhinuk

Getting productive

With a little help from a very dear creative friend, a good weekend of drawing and preparing for the Open Studios was had! Watch this space for a forthcoming exhibition poster at Haberdashery in Crouch End, London coming soon.....

Creative pal illustrating with me today!

Adding illustrations and unpacking more for the open studios

preparing more canvases ready to illustrate on my next visit to the studio tomorrow

further work in progress exploring my last visit to India

Brewing Ideas in progress

Guess the songs....

My work at the E17 Art Trail!

Please save a day (7th September for Preview Evening or 8th-9th September) to come to the Open Studios event where you can see more of my work in progress at Blackhorse Lane Studios:

I'll post more images of my work soon! Please contact me if you need any further information, I will have prints and selected works for sale. I hope you can make it and look forward to seeing some friendly faces there!