Jes Rickarby

“All schools should be art schools” Bob and Roberta Smith

Hi, I’m Jes. I’m an illustrator who is passionate about making positive change through creativity, particularly with mental health contexts.

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Front cover for a children’s picture book, a watercolour and digital illustration of a dragon and ginger girl looking up at the moon. Dark blues, greens and white as prominent colouring. White hand written typography saying ‘Anxiety and the Dragon.

Book cover

This piece is the front cover for a picture book project. Anxiety and the Dragon is about a dragon who is feeling anxious after a crash landing and how he and his friend work through strategies to overcome this feeling.

A selection of mock-ups and a spread from Anxiety and the Dragon. Mock-ups include front of book and an open spread, front cover image is the statement piece, and the open spread mock-up is of the dragon flying across the town with the girl on their back.

Book

Selection of mock-ups and spread from Anxiety and the Dragon.

A photographic poster of a heavily buttered slice of toast with ‘Don’t spread yourself thin’ scraped out of the butter.

Poster

If I Knew Then What I Know Now poster was a project to give advice to ourselves and other students starting their degrees.

Illustrated front cover of magazine, showing close up digital and pencil drawing of two young girls, laying with pencils in their hair. ‘The Other Shoes’ bold type in centre top, with header directly below stating ‘Diversifying perspectives through creativity’

Magazine cover

Front cover for ‘The Other Shoes’ magazine example for my Independent project. An educational and creative magazine discussing gender equality and identity empowerment.

3 images from The Other shoes magazine. Left hand image shows illustrated young girl shouting, with what is feminism in bold type. Middle image shows digital drawing of a scale with a boy and girl sat on each side. Black text at bottom sat on yellow background ,describes equality, and facts about the suffragettes. Right hand image shows example creative prompt page, blue background with white canvas framed in the centre. Illustrate pencils and text block explaining creative task. who’s your hero header.

Magazine

Example pages from The Other Shoes displaying some of the content, contexts and styles of the magazine.