Hybrid Gallery

Artists

Sally Elford

Sally has lived and worked in Brighton since graduating from the illustration degree course there ten years ago. Since then she has continued to develop her style of image making and translated her original collage technique into a considerably more convenient digital format. As a freelance illustrator Sally has worked for clients such as the BBC, Pearson Education and WHSmiths but she has always maintained a passion for her own choice of subject matter which is commonly, though not exclusively, the natural world.

Commercial jobs often require very specific subjects and figures but in her own work Sally loves to loosen up and simply celebrate natural forms and the decorative silhouettes of leaves, tree branches, flowers and grasses. In the examples you see here the focus is on the peculiar behaviour of birds; two species of Bowerbird – the interior designers of the natural world - and the Magpie. Each bird is attracted to man-made items and will collect them to decorate their nests or attract a mate.

So many artists look to nature for their subject but Sally chooses to interpret hers in a style that indicates her passion for mid century design and illustration. Tapered, sweeping lines – simple, blocks of flat colour and a restrained palette also make her designs ideal for silk screen printing.

Sally continues to produce as many new prints as she can