February - 2017

Penguin Student Design Awards 2018

Claire Marchant

Illustrator • Designer

Blog: Idea Generator

Inspirations and plans for creating 'A Sense of Place' illustrations

Inspirations and plans for creating 'A Sense of Place' illustrations

With Brookwood Cemetery as my 'Place', I considered different poems and literary interpretations of Death. However, I felt that many of the poems are romantacising death. And a cemetery, although eery, is also sad. Many of the graves were falling apart or the names were worn down. As if nature seems to be claiming back the landscape and overrunning the graves which encroach onto the landscape. The idea that nature is destroying and fracturing something which, at the time they

Brookwood Cemetery - More Research Photos

Brookwood Cemetery - More Research Photos

The 'lens' I chose to use when observing this location was mainly on the theme of 'fractures'. The icy weather conditions meant there were lots of interesting cracked and crumbling textures (see black and white images below) which mirrored the crumbling gravestones. I felt that looking at unusual textures and details caused by the effects of nature (weather and weathering of gravestones) helped me to narrow down the subject matter, as the cemetery is so huge that it is easy t

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