The Sea: It's big and cold and everything in it hates you Print
Undoubtedly one of the coolest prints ever. The size! The detail! The shape.
This print came into existence due to the illustrators intense love affair with the sea and the not-so-friendly creatures within, in his own words...
"I love the sea. I love living by the sea. I love the smell of salt on the air and sound of crashing waves, I love harbours and beaches and gulls and pretty much everything else about being near the sea. I am not, however, crazy keen about being in the sea. I'm intensely aware that I am a land creature and not well suited to submarine life. I'm slow and cumbersome in the water and it's not my favoured medium for breathing. There are things in the sea which are much better adapted than me, strange alien creatures, cold unfeeling things that circling incomprehensible depths, huge fearsome behemoths that dwarf anything found on the land. They live there, it's their home and you're not welcome...."
This super print comes from the talented hand of Scottish artist Daniel Seex, he works primarily in pen and ink adding colour and texture digitally and often building a picture from multiple works. This allows his work to have a flexibility that is useful when it come to illustration. He has a taste for surrealism and deadpan humour and would cite contemporary illustrators such as Tom Gould, Jon Klasson and Yuko Shimizu as his major influences.
This measures 45 x 24cm and is printed on to 260 – 350 gm, linen art paper and yes, it would look entirely epic on your wall.
Exclusive to April and the Bear.