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1 If you weren’t an artist, what else would you be?
I would be a radio show presenter. I have a good voice for it and I like writing jingles. I do a podcast with my best friend Tom and we are hoping that one day it will be picked up and we will get our own radio show. You can hear our shows at www.tomandjimtalk.com.

2 Name 3 of your least favourite artists.
3 of my least favourite? I don’t like it when celebrities get into image making. So I would say Bono, Phil Collins and Anthony Hopkins. They all produce very bad paintings and drawings. Bono is probably the worst.

3. Anytime, any place – which artist’s body would you most like to inhabit?
Peter Blake. He has a wonderful beard, and a fascinating body shape, and he wears high wasted trousers with braces. Also he has an incredible studio which houses an insane collection of toys and I would like to be able to walk around that.


4 What is your favourite ‘ism’?
Televism

5 What was the most intelligent thing that someone said or wrote about your work?

My agent has summed it up pretty well in the description of what I do on their website. I can’t remember all of what they have written but if you go to my profile and portfolio on their website, you can read it. Www.bigactive.com

6. And the dumbest?
‘He done a good drawing.’

7 Which artists would you most like to rip off, sorry, I mean appropriate as a critique of originality and authorship?
I don’t really know what that means. But I wouldn’t want to rip anyone off. People who rip people off cant really be described as artists.

8 Do you care what your art costs? State your reasons!
I’m not sure what this means either. Do you mean the things I have to sacrifice in order to be able to produce the work? Or do you mean the monetary cost of my work? Both are too hard to answer. All I can say is that my work is Very important to me and I like earning my income from doing what I enjoy.

9 What are the three big ideas that you would like your work to express?
Colour, things and stuff.


10 Are you a political artist?
Not at all. No.

11 How do you start the process of making work?
I draw a lot in my sketchbook, and I work a lot at nights. I think all the time about what I can do next and how to do it. There are real troughs and peaks in terms of productivity, but thats why it’s called the creative PROCESS. I think its supposed to be difficult otherwise it wouldn’t be as good when things work.

12. What’s next for you?
Well, I want to do some painting because I have never done any before and I am in the process of writing a children’s book which I am pretty excited about. I just want to continue to make things and have fun while I do it.

www.jimtheillustrator.co.uk/

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