Influential Illustrators and Artists 1

Søren Behncke

Behncke repurposes cardboard and objects found on the streets, turning discarded pieces of pop culture into paintings, sculptures, and street performances.

He also paints on canvas, but I most enjoy these 3D, quirky, graphic, and animated creations. I particularly like the geometric appearance, as the illustration is on a flat surface, then protruded to create a 3D shape. I also enjoy his black and negative outlines, which remind me of the movie “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, where the cartoons come to life. His designs play with space and scale, which build character into inanimate objects.

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Ed Cheverton

”I'm an illustrator and artist predominantly working with collage to make pictures, stories or collections about other worlds, nice characters and abstract spaces. Collage gives me an opportunity to be very playful with image making, bringing separate and contrasting elements together to form a new 'whole'. I like bringing forth joy in my work; the things I make are made with love and excitement. I like people to feel those things too when they look at the work.”

Cheverton, 2023, (https://www.asobi-store.co.uk/blogs/featured-artists/featured-artist-ed-cheverton)

He successfully plays with almost clashing shapes, sizes, and colours, mastering and balancing the elements to communicate joyful, happy, and descriptive images.

I particularly love his overlapping and textural appearance, choosing to expose the layering on his photos, rather than flatten them. He also manages to achieve depth, I think from his colour choices, which creates a narrative from a first-person perspective.

His work appears void of all control, as if relinquishing all technical skills. To me, they seem effortless, intuitive, and positively innocent. I’m hoping to take these into my own practice.