Craww

Female figures, crows and skulls, often surrounded by wilting flowers and plant life, flow from Craww’s mind onto each sketchbook page or wood panel. They develop naturally and organically without too much forethought, the product of an imagination allowed to wander freely through the woods.

Based in Sheffield, UK, Craww’s background in graphic design shows in his compositions, displaying a great sense of balance, allowing a narrative to appear through the outwardly chaotic finished image.

Soul searching: Joel Daniel Phillips

It’s on the corner of 6^th and Mission in San Francisco that Joel Daniel Phillips meets with the poverty stricken subjects of his ongoing series of finely detailed drawings, 'No Regrets in Life'. These are the protagonists of hard lives whose stories emerge in his large-scale, charcoal and graphite drawings on paper. Every line and wrinkle on a face, or fold and crease of a jacket, tells the story of a life well-worn and the experiences gained along the way.

The one-to-one scale of his work allows every tiny detail to be viewed and explored in a way not usually possible in graphite drawings. This allows us a glimpse behind the first impression of the sitter and gives an indication as to what makes that person who they are.