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Mark Smith

The motivating factor behind my artwork could be described as – ‘being inspired themes from the Constructivist Manifesto to try to access what I perceive to be the essence of any given text or story’, or – ‘I just like drawing pictures’. There’s an equal amount of truth in both of those statements.

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    msmithTorLambLion
    The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion
    Cover art for Margaret Killjoy's 'The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion'
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    msmithExeterBulletin
    How to build a better sense of self.
    Cover art for The Exeter Bulletin
  • msmithESPNAlicover
    msmithESPNAlicover
    Tribute to Muhammad Ali
    For ESPN The Magazine
  • msmithMizzouarguingwell
    msmithMizzouarguingwell
    How To Argue Well
    For Mizzou Magazine
  • msmithNEWYORKERlifeisajoke
    msmithNEWYORKERlifeisajoke
    My Life Is A Joke
    For the New Yorker
  • msmithFolioCandles2
    msmithFolioCandles2
    A Shilling For Candles
    Interior art for the Folio Society edition of A Shilling For Candles
  • msmithInstInvtopjob
    msmithInstInvtopjob
    How To Get The Top Jobs
    Cover art for Institutional Investor
  • msmithEnttwitter
    msmithEnttwitter
    Twitter Abuse
    How to deal with an ex-employee's disparaging tweets, for Entrepreneur Magazine
  • msmithGWBoros
    msmithGWBoros
    Portrait of Julius Boros
    For Golf World Magazine
  • msmithNatureALS
    msmithNatureALS
    Lou Gehrig's disease
    For Nature Journal
  • msmithRemodelling2
    msmithRemodelling2
    Improving Cashflow
    For Remodelling Magazine
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  • www.marksmithillustration.com
  • marksmith71uk@gmail.com
  • +1.415.285.8267

Mark's work has featured in magazines, newspapers, books and advertising campaigns around the world for clients including The New Yorker, ESPN The Magazine, Penguin Books, The Folio Society, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The New York Times and many more. His particular take on the world has won him recognition and awards from the NY Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Luerzers Archive, 3X3 Magazine, Communication Arts, LA Society of Illustrators and the V&A Illustration Awards, stand out's include a silver medal from the NY Society, the Patrick Nagel Award for Excellence from the LA Society and the 'Best in Show' award from 3X3 Magazine.

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Leo Monahan

by Leo Monahan on 03/14/2015 in SILA Member Artists

About the Work:

Inspired by Bauhaus design and color principles, as well as Japanese and Chinese paper arts, Leo Monahan creates modern masterworks of cut and folded paper.

Leo Monahan photograph

By cutting, folding, and texturizing paper of various weights, and by superimposing the pieces in dimensional collage, Leo gives the objects in his works a palpability they would not possess depicted on a flat canvas. In an old country kitchen, large spoons lean out from their utensil holder, as if hankering for a cook’s hand. A decaying rowboat poses in fugitive relief against the water that threatens to engulf it. Leo’s use of relief is such that some of his most arresting art is white on white.

Most of Monahan’s works, including the kitchens, are prodigies of color. An object’s relief is often heightened by intense tone. Using hot colors liberally in harmony with a few cooler ones, Leo often achieves some of the effects of an abstract. For example, his bigger- and more-colorful-than-life fishing flies seem intended to lure your inner eye.

In recent years, Leo has also enjoyed exploring the sensuous and emotional power of rusts and earth tones, often in images from his boyhood in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Leo’s work has appeared in galleries in California and across the Southwest. His work is now in the Grovewood Gallery in Asheville, NC. His pieces are in numerous private collections and the Smithsonian Institution. The Art Academy of Los Angeles held a 40-year retrospective of his compositions. Leo holds a Life Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators.

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    monahan, leo bird
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    monahan, leo butterfly
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    monahan, leo hands
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    monahan, leo horn
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Marcia Adams Ho

by Marcia Adams Ho on 11/21/2014 in SILA Member Artists

I love to get to know the story, the characters and the environment that surrounds them.

  • Father,Daughter,Fish_small file for SILA
    Father,Daughter,Fish_small file for SILA
    A father comforts his daughter over the loss of her pet fish, from Life Outside the Mason Jar, by Ann Brasco.
    Traditional Acrylic Painting, girl wonders why her pet fish is dead
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    Christmas Night in S Cal_small file
    Only the cat knows what happened to all the Christmas decorations that Santa Ana windy Christmas Eve, self promo
    Traditional Acrylic Painting
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    Girl with Fireflies
    Two fireflies contemplate how to reach beyond the hard steel ceiling from Life Outside the Mason Jar, by Ann Brasco.
    Traditional Acrylic Painting
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    Illustration 5_Woven Rings_ECWM_72_SILA
    Day 5 Five Woven Rings from The Tree Farmer's Twelve Days of Christmas author Aaron Burakoff
    Christmas Barn decorating with Christmas wreaths, Hand drawn in Adobe Photoshop
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    Illustration 6_Hounds Leaving Park_Small file
    Two Basset Hounds on their one night away from the comforts of home, from Life Outside the Mason Jar, by Ann Brasco.
    Traditional Acrylic Painting
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    TreeFarmersTwelveDaysofChristmas_Taggers_ECWM_72_SILA
    Day 11 Eleven Taggers from The Tree Farmer's Twelve Days of Christmas author Aaron Burakoff
    Christmas Barn and Christmas trees getting tagged for harvest, Hand drawn in Adobe Photoshop
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    Illustration 5_Foxes_small file
    Two foxes wish they could fly with the clouds, from Life Outside the Mason Jar, by Ann Brasco.
    Traditional Acrylic Painting
  • Cover Three Shells for Nikki
    Cover Three Shells for Nikki
    Nikki is uneasy about entering her Grandmother's home whom she has never met, from Three Shells for Nikki written by Philippa Norman
    Hand drawn in Adobe Photoshop
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    Jingle Bell Run_FINAL_front cover_SILA
    Christmas Jingle Bell Run book cover
    Christmas garland with colorful running shoes and jingle bells, Hand drawn in Adobe Photoshop
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    Chapter 4_Alley Cat_small file
    Alley Cat secretly read the classics with her friends. from Alley Cat written by Daisey Dowell MD
    Hand drawn digital illustration
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    Cookie Dough Dreams_72 by Marcia Adams Ho_2_RGB
    Cookie Dough Dreams
    Wall Mural design for Cookie Dough Dreams, Burbank, CA
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Angela Hsieh

by Angela Hsieh on 12/02/2018 in SILA Member Artists

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    The Cavioliths
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  • NPR: International Adoption
    NPR: International Adoption
    For a piece on NPR about an adoptee's journey to find her biological family.
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    NPR: Book Concierge
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    NPR: Best Albums of 2018
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    NPR: Green Spaces
    For a episode of NPR's Hidden Brain on the restorative power of natural spaces.
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    NPR: The Cassandra Curse
    For an episode of NPR's Hidden Brain on the psychology of warnings.
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    Created for NPR's callout for submissions to their yearly summer reader poll.
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