GUAP Studios Mural Canning Town by Cush.One in Hastings

Greetings! Welcome to my world! I am an up-and-coming artist originally from West London, now living in Hastings, specialising in murals and design/illustration for musical artists and promotion, and with 8 years experience as a working artist. I take a lot of influence from the vibrancy and energy of life and the cultures of the world, reggae music and sound system culture, surrealism, political artwork, pop art and graphic novel illustration. CREATIVE SERVICES I OFFER -Murals (Any scale, Indoors/Outdoors) -Vehicle bodywork -Flyers and Posters -Logo's & Identity -Album Artwork -Social Media Imagery/Banners etc -Text & Lettering -Chalkboards -Merchandise QUALIFICATIONS -GCSE Art & Design - A* -BTEC Level 3 Dipolma Art & Design - Destinction* -Illustration BA (Hons) 2:1 BIO I grew up heavily immersed in skateboarding culture around the age of 10, I started to create my own skateboard graphics inspired by the ones I took inspiration from and that caught my eye.. This was my first step into the world of Art & Design as I know it and I soon found myself completely addicted to making my visions and ideas come to life. In school I would struggle to sit longer than about 20 minutes without having to start drawing, so realising this passion I decided to dedicate the direction of my education and future towards being an artist of some kind. After completing my GCSE in Art & Design, I went on to study the subject at BTEC level at Kingston College. My time studying here allowed me to experiment a lot, develop my identity as an artist and also hone a variety of different skills. After 2 years I finished with a Distinction Star and consecutively enrolled for the Illustration course at Southampton Solent University not wanting to waste any time and keep pushing my craft further into the point of it being a career. By this time I had done a small number of private commissions for people and I was starting to build up my portfolio as a working artist/designer. The course introduced me to more disciplines such as life drawing, printmaking (screen printing/lino/letterpress), and this helped me further develop my artistic identity into being more focused on text and image/promotional pieces. I graduated from Solent in the summer of 2017 with a 2:1 and also recieving the Jonny Hannah Cakes and Ale press award for Text and Image. I imediately got busy with getting comissions and more artistic work and soon found myself doing lots of work in the musical field - producing promotional material such as flyers and posters for gigs and festivals, merchandise for bands and also logos. I have since been continously working on similar projects for clients such as Big Audio Dynamite, The Men They Couldn't Hang, 4i, Bette Smith, TBC Merchandise and more, as well as a number of murals.