As a design agency that specialises in licensing artwork to art buyers and publishers all over the world we’d be remiss to not send a Christmas Greeting with to our customers, artists and followers on the web … 🙂 We wish everyone the very best during this joyful festive season & hope your holidays are filled with peace, family and plenty of merry enjoyment. Read more
Map Illustration by Pure Illustration artists
Pure Illustration represent a wide variety or artists and illustrators from all creative markets. We’re steadily developing our advertising and editorial illustration portfolios and work with some very experienced creatives whose artwork appears in magazines, publications and on products. One content matter that is regularly commissioned in all of these situations is Map Illustration. Here are a few of our illustrators published works to demonstrate their ability and hopefully give you a reason to commission them through Pure Illustration. Read more
New BBC Countryfile Magazine Illustration
Pure Ilustration artist Tony Parsons has just completed a new editorial illustration for the December issue of BBC Countryfile Magazine. Tony’s artwork illustrates Adam Henson’s lifelong affection for his canine companions either as working dogs on the farm or as family pets. The artwork looks great Tony – Congratulations! Pure Illustration – the agency for artists and illustrators working in art markets worldwide Read more
The Rise and Fall of the In-House design team – In Defence of the Freelance Artist
For some time now there has been a trend among greeting card publishers and gift manufacturers to grow their in-house design teams and to try to produce as much artwork for product as possible through internal resources. At some point it became an attractive way of working and one that no doubt appealed to tighter budgets. However this trend has been to the great detriment of freelance artists, design agencies and the ancillary services that sustain them. Since 2011 Pure Illustration has seen an unprecedented... Read more
Recent Commission for Tony Parsons – Pure Illustration
Although the majority of the sales at Pure Illustration are made from stock imagery we do also receive commissions for our Artists & Illustrators. One recent commission was for Tony Parsons, a successful Pure Illustration artist, to create a ‘cape cod’ inspired scene for a greeting card which would have a triple fold format. The commission and reference material came in on a Monday and Tony had a rough ready by the next day: The customer absolutely loved the rough and approved it right away.... Read more
Design Round Up – Snowmen
Pure Illustration’s customers license Christmas artwork all year round. Currently, many of our customers are working on Greeting Cards, Gift Bags, Wrapping Paper, Tags, Mugs, Plates and Many other products that will not be in the shops until December 2018! There are many icons and characters that appear in Christmas artwork & Illustration, and snowmen are a regular request from our publishing and manufacturing customers. Here’s a small selection of new snowmen pieces: Pure Illustration – the agency for artists and illustrators working in art... Read more
Design Round Up – Nativity
Pure Illustration’s artists a constantly coming up with fantastic new designs for greetings card and gift products and Christmas is one of our biggest themes. Our publishing and manufacturing customers are already working on products which will be in retailers for Christmas 2018 and they ask us for new artwork and designs all year round. One of the most popular themes for charity greeting cards is the Nativity and we license hundreds of pieces of artwork to our greetings card publishers with this content every... Read more
Artist Interview – Helen Nevett
We’re proud to announce that we now represent Helen Nevett, an artist with years of experience creating artwork for greetings card and other gift products. As Licensing Agents for Helen’s portfolio of beautiful art we are available to help publishers and manufacturers find the art they need or commission Helen to create something completely new and bespoke. Here’s a short interview with Helen to give you some more information about her work and experience: 1. How did you find yourself working in the world of... Read more
Artists Interview – Reginald Swinney
Pure Illustration represent many talented illustrators and artists, and we license their artwork to publishers and manufacturers all over the world. Sometimes, in the day to day of business, it is easy to loose sight of the fact that the artwork is the price and joy of a certain artist rather than a commercial product that will help a product sell. And so we like to take the time to introduce our artists and illustrators as individuals, so that our customers can connect with their... Read more
Artist Interview – Tony Parsons
Pure Illustration represent many talented illustrators and artists, some who have worked with us for many years. It’s always interesting to get a back-story about the artist who creates a licensed piece of artwork so we’ve been chatting with our creative team members to find out more about their work. Here is a brief interview with Tony Parsons, Pure Illustration’s most successful Fine Artist. 1. How did you find yourself working in the world of art licensing? For many years I was a caricature portrait... Read more