Small worlds, painted slowly.
Editorial illustration, book covers and picture books in gouache, ink and two colour risograph. Taking new commissions from September.
Selected work
Eight pictures from the last four years
Select any plate to see it larger, with notes on how it was made.
From the studio notebook
I start every picture with the light source and paint backwards from it. If the lamp is wrong, nothing else in the room will sit still.
About
A short biography
Ines Marlow grew up above a hardware shop in Stroud and now paints most mornings at a kitchen table in Easton, Bristol. She studied printmaking, spent six years laying out pages for a regional newspaper, and went freelance in 2019 when the drawings in the margins started to take over.
Most pictures begin as pencil thumbnails no bigger than a postage stamp. Finals are gouache on hot pressed paper, sometimes with an ink line, scanned at 600 dpi and checked against the printer's proofs. Shorter runs become two colour risograph editions, printed at a shared studio on Stokes Croft.
She is left handed, works to the radio, and never throws away a failed painting. The backs are for colour tests.
- Based in
- Bristol, UK
- Mediums
- Gouache, ink, two colour risograph
- Takes on
- Editorial spots, book covers, picture books, packaging
- Turnaround
- Spot illustrations in five working days, covers in three to four weeks
Commissions
Booking from September.
Send a short brief with the deadline, the printed size and where the picture will appear. Replies go out within two working days with a quote and a rough schedule.
studio@inesmarlow.exampleWhat to put in the brief
- 01The deadline and the file format you need
- 02The printed size, including any bleed
- 03Where the picture will run, and for how long
- 04Two or three references, if you have them
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