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Welcome to Steve Spicer’s Showcase of Illustration

Have a wander round, click some of the links, send Stephen an email if you would like to see more, buy something or just say hi! Some of the pictures are hard to put in one slot or the other, so do make sure that you’ve looked everywhere here, however, the main areas are:

Editorial
These are pictures that have been published in magazines or used in similar publications.

Instructional
Steve’s done a lot of instructional images. These are just a very small representative selection.

Social
This category has some of Steve’s personal Christmas cards - all of which feature him somewhere on them, (As do many other illustrations - Steve likes it when people put cameos of themself or other people) along with party invitations and other work like that.

Advertising
These are illustrations that were used in adverts, or the whole advert themselves. Steve’s designed adverts and direct mail for many people as well, those will be on the graphic design website in due course.

Cartoons
A lot of Steve’s work can be considered cartooning, although he doesn’t always consider himself a cartoonist. A lot of the images have humour in them, although sometime it is very black and there have been several images that caused at the time some great upsets. Hovering over the image will tell the story - if there’s one to be told. Steve considers that cartoons shouldn’t just be funny. They should be capable of making a point.

Painting
Stephen also paints, and his tree paintings are popular. Some of them can be seen here as well as some of the other paintings. This really goes into the catagory of fine art - but since he doesn’t have a fine art website they and the mechanisms are both here.

Mechanisms
Steve’s current work is around the themes of devices and mechanisms. Machines have been a constant source of inspiration, from Heath Robinson type devices I drew many years ago (and still do) to the steampunk images that now delight me. He is interested in alternate technologies, what if so and so had been invented years before - for example, what if people had taken a longer look at crystals in radio we might have been spared the thermonic valve.

Stations (of the cross)
This is a series of drawings that Stephen did for Easter. They are postcard sized, and are available as unframed prints from the artist, priced £160+VAT for the set.

News
An occasional way of telling you what’s happening.

Other
Here’s the rest. There’s a section showing some of the graphic design projects I have done, a section showing some of the sculpture projects as well. In particular, I’ve done several very successful large scale clay sculptures that were community/group activities.

One early and continued passion is stereoscopic imaging. I have written about this and created images, if you are looking for the 3D stuff, you'll find it here. If you want to contact me the email address is at the bottom and on this page. Also you’ll find the CV and pictures here.

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About Stephen Spicer
I trained at Chelsea School of Art and have been a professional artist for over 20 years. If you want to find out more about me click here. I have exhibited rarely, although I have work on permanent show in Swansea and have many magazine, annual report and other publications that have used my work. I have also done large scale community art pieces, notably for the Greenbelt festival in Cheltenham.

I am based in Bath, England.

Other Websites
I have graphic design website here. (Currently under construction)
My other all-in-one website is here. (Currently under construction)
Finally if you are looking for details of the consultancy business click here.