Name: Seth Mulcahey Banks

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Job: Illustrator, Animator, Painter

Url: http://www.behance.net/sethmbanks

About: I graduated from Cambridge School of Art in 2008 with a BA (Hons) in Illustration and now i live in Brixton. Since then i have had several shows in and around London most recently in the Foundry on Old Street, and last year at the New Designers Selection part of London Design Week in September. I have a strong interest in colour and pattern and consequently my work is vibrant and colour rich. I am inspired by many things in the world but nature, fashion and music are the most prominent, so i guess raving in a field with some RayBan’s and a grizzly bear would be my perfect incubator for an Illustration concept. I use many mediums including photography, collage and many types of pen and ink. I love to combine both hand rendered and digital techniques in both illustration and animation. Most recently geometric shapes and obsessive line drawings have been frequent in my Illustration but last year i was desperate to use my art to con vet my feelings about climate change and the state of the planet where this is concerned, the quantity of 4×4′s in London causes me great anger and i used animation to express these feelings. The Envrion-mental project will show you the body of work and animation for this which will also be in The Big Book of Contemporary Illustration out in the Autumn this year. I am currently seeking work in Illustration and Design both Freelance and full time.

Get Inspired by: I get inspired by a night with my friends listening to the music i love as much as walking through nature in a forrest somewhere or from the Observation of shapes within architecture or even a pair of trainers, I take inspiration from all i come into contact with, people, animals, objects. Many of my ideas come directly from my mind influenced by my dreams and the things around me but often I put pen to paper not knowing what will come and just let shapes and obsessive lines be the driving force, letting the images evolve and grow around that.