Portraits
People, from your own photographs — illustrated rather than traced.
Six distinct modes of making — portraits, paintings, prints, patterns, botanical studies and brand marks. Worked to a brief, delivered to a deadline.
drag your cursor across the table →She does not do one thing. Paint, botanical, print, pattern, people, marks — each is its own discipline, and each one is on this table. Choose one and the work below sorts itself.
— all twenty-one pieces are laid out below —
Twenty-one pieces, sorted by hand. Sweep them into one mode, or leave them scattered. Click any piece to see it large.
Nothing in that pile — try another swatch.
Jacqui Gill is an illustrator based on the Isle of Man, working across visual communication and design. Alongside bespoke illustration she runs a small business making and selling handmade jewellery.
She works to a brief and to a deadline — the drawing is the fun part, but the discipline and the time management are what get it delivered.
self portrait
Three kinds of thing, one way of working: you tell her the idea, she draws it, you sign it off.
People, from your own photographs — illustrated rather than traced.
Small acrylic canvases; coast, water, and whatever was landed that morning.
Logos, business cards and repeat patterns for small businesses.
What it is, who it's for, and when you need it.
You see it before it's finished, and you get a say.
Delivered as agreed — to the brief, to the deadline.
Tell her what you have in mind. There is no wrong way to describe it.