Hi I’m Jay. My passion is storytelling. I like to tell
stories and build worlds; lately this has been in the form of 3-Dimensional
model-making. I make a lot of scenes and dioramas, models, puppets and dolls,
each one with its own character and personality. I enjoy the tactile process of
making and building things with my hands.
My work is usually intended for an audience of children, I
strive to make my work playful and charming. My practice sits within the contexts
of stop-motion animation and children’s books.
My two areas of interest: children's publishing and puppet
animation. They cross over when it comes to character and narrative. Some of the makers I admire are sadly no
longer around, Jim Henson and Oliver Postgate, but there are still companies
maintaining handmade values. The Henson Company, LAIKA, Mckinnon and Saunders (these
companies require hands like mine for puppet design, construction and art direction)
but also from the other side children's publishers Nosy Crow and Flying Eye
Books who I want to get my stories out to. I want to learn about these
companies as places of work and as creative professionals.
A practitioner I would really like to contact would be Chris
Sickels. Sickels works in a similar medium to me, creating 3-D scenes/models
and photographing them/combining them with hand-drawn illustration. I would
like to ask Sickels about his studio, his working day/week. How long does it
take to make each model? I want to ask him about clients in editorial
illustration – it is a risk to approach a practitioner with such similar outcomes
but Sickels has so much experience, knowledge and contacts that although I may
be competition I think we could help each other, even work together
harmoniously.
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