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Illustrator Katie Smith on drawing comforting characters that inspire creativity

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These fun and cartoon-like drawings allow her to experiment with bright colours, dynamic patterns and random themes. With so many inspiring artworks being created daily, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and as you will never find your voice." And rather than being intimidated by her inspirations, she feeds them into her work.

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Sarah Mafféïs illuminates everyday moments through texture, tone and craft

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For Sarah, inspiration is like a stream that flows from her immediate surroundings. "I I am highly attuned to the atmosphere around me," she says, "so I find constant inspiration in my living environment and the changing seasons." Another recurrent theme in Sarah's artwork is the depiction of food and drink.

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Hanneke Rozemuller constructs dreamy, textural scenes as a way of making sense of the world

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One glance at Hanneke Rozemuller 's portfolio, and you'll stumble upon a sea-blue scene with cloud-like textures reminiscent of a dream, a floating figure appears surrounded by thought bubbles. The piece is textured and beautifully nonsensical for the way it merges motifs and objects into a rosy, hypnagogic drawing.

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V&A names Benjamin Phillips as Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year 2024

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Phillips, who won in the Illustration for Children category, explores themes of Jewish identity, generational divides, and gentrification in his work. This year saw a record-breaking 2,000 submissions, each exploring a diverse array of themes and ideas through the medium of illustration.

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Inspired by stories and funny conversations, Alex Skyrme uses illustration to bring a smile to everyone's face

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Alex is heavily inspired by fashion, texture, people watching, and hearing people's stories or funny conversations on the go, especially those from the tube. Her customer-facing job also helps to keep her inspirations active, as she tends to meet a broad mix of lovely people with stories to tell.

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CiCi Suen's beautiful, textured drawings explore the hidden universe of nature

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Picked out with striking line work and hazy shading, CiCi Suen's stunning nature illustrations purposefully occupy a rather dreamlike world with no story or set theme to anchor them. In terms of her new style, CiCi's approach is partly inspired by the "incredibly powerful" work of Italian graphic novelist Lorenzo Mattotti. "I

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Cradle: Playful tufted chairs and stools shaped like cats offer comfort and hope

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Titled Cradle, the exhibition at Reem Gallery in Ham Yard, Soho, will bring the Central Saint Martins fine art graduate's unique body of work to the masses, all centring around the recurring theme of cats in nursery rhymes and folk stories. They're not like anything we've ever seen. Wilburs Whiskers, 2022 © Selby Hurst Inglefield.