Finding the suit that fits (From Stroud News and Journal)

Finding the suit that fits

THE BRAND new Kendrick Street Gallery celebrates it's recent opening with an exhibition of work by up-and-coming young Stroud illustrator Nadine Faye James, starting this weekend.

James, who has worked freelance for Faber & Faber, The Guardian, Elle and The Royal Festival Hall amongst others, finished her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2001. She was awarded the 2001 Daler-Rowney Drawing Prize. In Sept 2003, she exhibited at the Lock and Davies Gallery, London.

"This exhibition is based around the theme of suits, from birthday suits to cat suits and includes proper drawings as well as silly ones," said Nadine.

"At the moment I create images using pen and ink, sometimes felt tip and letters, which I photocopy and colour using omnicom.

"I spend a lot of time in libraries photocopying, researching and drawing from books, I also collect ideas as I walk around looking at things and listening to people, which I note down in sketch books.

Things that particularly inspire me are animals (mainly bears, hares, wolves and crocodiles) rhyming, old paper, unusual or badly printed stickers, P.G. Wodehouse, F Scott Fitzgerald, Home & Away, the colour green and bookbinding!"

The Kendrick Street Gallery is situated upstairs at the new art supply shop and this is to be the first of a series of exhibitions.

Nadine Faye James' exhibition opens on Saturday November 27 and runs until December 13. The Kendrick Street Gallery is open from 9.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Saturday.