B is For Bear By Clare Halifax

Claire Halifax is an artist who understands the beauty of print making. Using highly skilled processes, with an impressive talent for illustration, Halifax creates prints of rich and meticulous detail, with design, pattern and colour playing crucial roles in the overall style. Halifax has produced a series of a-z animal prints, using textiles to create a picture book aesthetic. With an impressive eye for colour and composition, the animal series merges art and design, incorporating typography, texture and graphics to stunning effect. 'B is For Bear' is dominated by a large, white, upper-case 'B', which stands against a repeated pattern of brown bears paddling in cool-blue lakes in a forest landscape. Using only three colours, Halifax has created texture and tonality with a woven technique, layering the sections of the landscape together for depth. The tapestry effect transformed into print is striking, merged with the careful composition and bold palette, to create a truly beautiful aesthetic.