Stuart Patience

I came across the work of Stuart Patience on the Heart Agency website. His practice gives me confidence that working predominantly black and white imagery can form a successful illustration practice. A lot of his work contains animals which is similar to what I enjoy drawing. His work is very concept driven and has elements of surrealism and I feel this is something I am lacking at the moment in my own practice. I often tend to stick to images of things that actually exist and I feel this limits the messages my images can give. I think I can take inspiration from his work to use the style I am developing technically and try to develop it conceptually too.