Nicole Lim

Hello! I am a visual development artist, children’s book illustrator and self-proclaimed ice cream connoisseur from the Philippines who is currently based in Pasadena.

Most of my illustrations are drawn digitally and revolve around nature, fantasy, and whimsical themes. I especially love telling stories for children (and the children at heart) to laugh, ponder, appreciate the simple joys of life.

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professional Member
www.rinianart.com
rinian@gmail.com

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Joe Cepeda

Experienced editorial illustrator.

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Martin French

My professional practice has been focused on taking symbols from daily life and reworking them into images potent enough to strike passing audiences with an experience of aesthetic and intellectual encounter. I’ve been especially fascinated by how an individual artist’s unique vision, when developed and honed, can be at once exclusively personal and yet widely transcendent. This fascination with the expressive and communal paradox inherent in artistic development is what led me away from a career as a design director to start my own illustration and design practice. Its contours and questions still energize my development and practice as a visual communicator.

Thankfully, my disciplinary fascination happens to overlap with what has turned out to be vital professional practice—namely the need for the modern visual communicator to find ways of distinguishing their images in a hyper-saturated visual market. That quest isn’t, of course, something that ends with a degree or an award. On the contrary, its ongoing, evolving challenges form a large portion of what we refer to as professional practice. How does a visual communicator remain savvy and able to read culture? How does a visual communicator retain a vision robust enough to start or redirect zeitgeists rather than being conformed to them? As I engage with these tensions I’d like to think my images could have worked in 1909, or again in 2099—the point being that their appeal depends not on tapping the hype of contemporary culture, but, almost the reverse, on stripping away the hype to offer up an image conveying a timeless appeal.

My move to Portland in 2006 motivated me to explore and apply these ideas through projects aimed at connecting with the city, most notably, the formation of the Illustration Department at The Pacific Northwest College of Art. My hope for student development in and through cultural engagement is the pedagogical extension of my ambition for my own work. I am seeking to deepen the unity between my own professional practice, artistic voice, and cultural involvement. I am energized by seeking greater rigor, expression, risk-taking, and clarity in my work. Naturally, my general teaching philosophy reflects that kind of ethos: I want students to experience my classroom as a laboratory where processes, ideas, and historical/cultural backdrops are live-wires, highly-charged and dynamic elements through which we can better understand, better share, and better tell, our own stories. What’s more—and this is core to my overarching goal for myself and my students—I want the classroom to be a place where we learn how to press ever deeper into that powerful personal/communal paradox that a well-developed vision and a highly-sensitive mind can come together and create.

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Title: Arab Spring
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Title: Exile Poster Project / Mass Incarceration
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Chuck Grieb

Be careful what you say to your children. Watching Ray Harryhausen’s Jason and the Argonauts with his father, four year old Chuck Grieb asked how the skeletons “came alive”. His father’s answer, “They got skinny actors” led the boy to a quest for the truth and a lifelong love for the fantastic.

Inspired by old stories, the world around him, and many artists who have come before Chuck Grieb enjoys creating fantastical imagery.

Currently a full time teacher, Chuck continues to create art and animation, pursuing his love for storytelling and the magic he felt when seeing Ray Harryhausen’s skeletons come alive. Most recently, Chuck has been exploring illustrative art, his work having been featured in esteemed publications including Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Infected By Art, and Exposé.

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Caption: Dogfight
Description: Hummingbird riders battle in the skies with Goblins in their steam powered fliers. Painted in Casein on 300 lb HP watercolor paper.
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Caption: The Mere.
Description: Beowulf descends to battle Grendel's mother. Selected to be published in Spectrum 23. Painted in Casein on 300 lb HP watercolor paper.
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Caption: Arcturus - A Garden Clan Knight
Description: Oil on panel
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Caption: Lizard Rider Greets the Morning
Description: Oil on panel.
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Caption: In a Tough Spot
Description: Beowulf and Wiglaf confront the Dragon. Painted in Casein on 300 lb HP watercolor paper.
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Caption: Tucke'rs Race! Faerie's race their winged steeds. Painted in Casein on 300 lb HP watercolor paper.
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Caption: Rabbit faeries stumble upon unexpected ruins.
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Caption: Tanner Longfoot teaches his son, Lucky, how to shoot a bow.
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Description: Hummingbird rider squire. Selected to be included in Infected By Art 5
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Caption: Lucky and Tavi stumble upon a sleeping troll.
Description: Oil on paper
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Caption: The Hummingbird Riders Land
Description: The Hummingbird Riders land to be greeted by the rabbit faeries.

Nicole Lim

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