Moomin Animated Feature Film being developed
7 October 2025 • Mark Westall
Moomin Characters, the parent company of the Moomins, and Annapurna today announced they are bringing the beloved creatures to life as an animated feature film
Tag: illustration
Zhanjiang Liu- exploring what it is to beartist with humour, irreverence andchaotic intensity
10 December 2024 • Mark Westall
Who says you need a multitude of colours, complicated drawings or advanced technologies to create breathtaking illustrations? Certainly not Zhanjiang… Read More
Embracing a New Era: The Impact of Drawing Tablets on Digital Art
10 May 2024 • Gaston La-Gaffe
The industry of drawing tablets has recently changed the way artists can create their favourite titles digitally, bringing together traditional and digital… Read More
Five Illustrated Characters that Transcend their Origins
8 July 2021 • Staff
It’s difficult to go very far and not run into an illustrated character that hasn’t breached the confines of its… Read More
End Youth Homelessness New #HOMEISWHERE Collaboration with Illustrators
4 March 2020 • Mark Westall
End Youth Homelessness invited artists to interpret the theme ‘Home is where…’ to help raise money and awareness for the work they do getting vulnerable young people into safe and secure accommodation.
The Blue From Heaven (2019)
19 February 2019 • Staff
Oh, what a joy. Stevie Smith. Her sad poem. Why does it bring me joy?
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 03/03/18
4 March 2018 • Tabish Khan
‘The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London’ this week include: Surreal portraits, lights, beams, Americana, Trump, illustrations and supporting artists.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 04/02/18
4 February 2018 • Tabish Khan
Ruins, Georgian architecture, water filled sculpture, a skyline cut in half, atmospheric domesticity, the underworld and art in a hospital.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
7 May 2017 • Tabish Khan
Mosaics, punks, kinetic art, Lucio Fontana, fake news, optical illusions and collage.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
14 August 2016 • Tabish Khan
A surreal homage, monochrome art, the refugees crisis, childhood nostalgia and moderation
Anish and Antony to the rescue! Can the sculptors gentrify Afghanistan?
2 December 2015 • Mark Westall
A merciless graphic novel imagines what would happen if Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley were dropped on Afghanistan. Its creator explains his hallucinatory romp
Step into Oliver Jeffers’ secret art society
20 November 2015 • Mark Westall
He’s best known as an illustrator, but Jeffers also paints portraits – though you have to get access to a secret ceremony to see them, and after a few fleeting moments he dips them in paint so they are concealed forever
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: a NEW illustration and street art show ILLUSTRATED 2015
7 May 2015 • Staff
For The Weekend go visit ILLUSTRATED 2015
PREVIEW: ILLUSTRATED 2015
2 April 2015 • Mark Westall
FAD caught up with the founder of ILLUSTRATED Marc Farrington to find out what he has in store for this years event.
Over 40 Street Artists celebrate the city @SomersetHouse
19 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Contemporary cartographic art by international street and graffiti artists to be the first exhibition in Somerset House’s recently opened New Wing.
Exhibit Your Art in London and New York
26 December 2014 • Staff
In 2015, we are taking the Share Your Art series to the next level with exhibitions in London and New York. What themes would you like to tackle?
‘Preview’ a New Art & Technology gallery opens in London.
14 December 2014 • Mark Westall
Preview is a new art and technology gallery in the heart of Angel, London.
Illustrator Barbara Nessim: ‘I was just steering my own ship’
5 February 2013 • Mark Westall
She dated Marc Bolan, lived with Gloria Steinem – and captured a country in change. Ahead of a major retrospective, Barbara Nessim talks shoes, salsa and suffering
KURT AND THE GANG a sticker album inspired by Kurt Cobain released this October
1 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Christopher Worker Patrick Schmid Mike Hazard ‘Kurt and the Gang’ expanded by BELLY KIDSFEBRUARY ‘Kurt and the Gang’ is a… Read More
Ruth Joyce Get Your Art On FAD #22
30 August 2012 • Mark Westall
The Sugar Skull Princess by Ruth Joyce
Nathan Bowen – Solo Show at Curious Duke Gallery Private view Thursday 16th August 2012
16 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Exhibiting solo for the first time Nathan brings his characters to life. Exploring a plethora of mediums developing his characters and taking them to a 3 dimensional level enabling viewer’s to hear and see Nathans characters in different surroundings.
FAD Interviews Claire Catterall and Sarah Mann at Pick Me Up 2012
23 March 2012 • Ben Austin
FAD Talks to Claire Catterall and Sarah Mann to find out more about this years Pick Me Up 2012, a… Read More
Artist Creates Ultra-Minimalist Posters Of Villains, Heroes
27 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Minimalist Super Heroes