Jamaica Street Artists

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Tom Mead

Illustrator and Animator

  • Member of JSA since 2010

Mr Mead is a Bristol based artist / illustrator who admires the surreal and otherworldly sides of art. He hand draws all of his work with fine liner pens and / or dip pen and Indian ink, usually working on large pieces of MDF or mount board.

His terror and intrigue for animals dressed as humans stems from his memories of Reginald Mills’ 1976 ballet film, “The Tales of Beatrix Potter”. Deciding to embrace his fear he has recently found a passion for more the traditional artistic techniques and has developed his ink based style to create dark inhuman characters blending the animal, human and mechanic, a super species he nicknames ‘British Bio-Mechanical Anthropomorphism’.

As well as his anthropomorphism fear his work is also inspired by Dr Seuss, Koji Morimoto, Tim Burton, H.R Giger, Francisco Goya, Nate Frizzel, Beth Carter, Tim Lane, Remi Wyart and Shaun Tan to name but a few.

He is constantly working on new ideas, folk tales, album covers, poster designs and a never ending collection of characters. Mr Mead  has also recently been interview by international art commentators Coates and Scarry. www.coatesandscarry.com

The Antlers Gallery represent him and he has just had his first solo show where he launched a playing card pack adorned with his characters. To find out more please go to www.antlersgallery.com