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@rowanclair
Hello, I'm Rowan, an artist from the UK. My main interests that find their way into my work are nature, fantasy, history and pattern design. FFXIV is a big love of mine and I make a lot of art inspired by it, and sometimes other video games too. Here are a bunch of links to places of interest:
🌟 Portfolio ⭐ Bluesky ⭐ Instagram 🌟 Mailing list Print and Goods, etc: 🌟 INPRNT ⭐ Redbubble 🌟 Spoonflower ⭐ Etsy 🌟 Ko-fi
Just in case you missed it - limited edition prints of this illustration are now available!
✨shop.rowanclair.com✨
This artwork is rooted in a sense of wonder and mystery, drawing both from fantasy and from reflections of the real world, and our relationship to nature as humans.
It’s taken some work to get here, but I’m really excited to finally release these prints, and to do so on my own website, rather than a marketplace. To open an independent shop has been a goal of mine for a while, and hopefully in the coming months I'll be making more of my work available this way!
In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.
Hello! The time is here at last, my new shop is open, and you're invited to the launch of my limited edition print run of this artwork. Once these are sold, they won’t be available again in this form.
✨Find them here ✨
Or visit shop.rowanclair.com!
Thank you all for your support!
Here's a video of me opening the sample of my new prints! I’m using a new printer and I’m extremely pleased with the quality, and I think you will be too.
The prints will be available in a limited edition of 3 sizes. They are beautiful archival prints, the colours are gorgeous and vibrant and exactly how I wanted them to look. Each print is digitally signed and numbered, and comes with a certificate of authenticity. Shipping is worldwide, tracked & insured!
I’m also really pleased to be able to say that the printing, packaging and shipping process is fully carbon neutral and uses FSC-certified materials. Sustainability is really important to me, and this is one of the reasons I wanted to start selling prints through my own shop. Not to mention, this artwork in particular was inspired in part by the relationship between humans and the natural environment.
They go live in two days on 1st July, hope to see you there ✨
In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.
The story behind this piece... It has quite a history behind it.
I've received a lot of questions and comments about it, some of which correctly guessed what I was inspired by, and others brought totally new perspectives I wouldn’t have considered. That’s one of the most interesting things about discussing artwork with someone, whether you made it or not.
As I’ve been preparing to make it available as a print next week, I’ve been thinking about the process of making it a lot. It was created for the Cheltenham Illustration Awards last year, but the story started much longer ago than that.
A few people have commented that my work reminds them of the Narnia books, or His Dark Materials - and yes, both of those were huge inspirations to me as a child. I’ve always been fascinated by fantasy worlds, and these stories that suggested there could be ways to visit them from our own world captured my imagination.
Maybe this is part of why I’ve always been very interested in mirrors, reflections, windows and doors in art… Which is often what art is itself, in a way.
Here are some pictures of the the oldest work I have that deals with the same ideas. Many years ago, I was living in London and as much as I adored everything that city has to offer, it didn’t take long for me to start growing incredibly homesick for quiet, rural nature.
I was working with installation and video, using reflections from mirrors and water and pinholes in walls to open windows from my studio to the places I longed for.
After I left London, that kind of work took a back seat for a while, but the concepts stayed with me. They began to evolve, from more abstract thoughts of escaping into nature, to entire worlds that took on a life of their own.
This time, I wasn’t only looking to escape, but to reflect the things I was experiencing too. A significant part of that was observing the changing landscape, its fragility, and the impact we have on it as modern humans.
I resolved that I wanted to return to making art based on these ideas, but I hadn’t figured out how to start doing it. The opportunity came when I saw the theme of the Cheltenham Illustration Awards - “Tales of the Uncanny” - it just seemed like the perfect moment.
Although this was made as a stand-alone piece, there’s still a lot more I’d like to do with the same themes.
In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.
The story behind this piece... It has quite a history behind it.
I've received a lot of questions and comments about it, some of which correctly guessed what I was inspired by, and others brought totally new perspectives I wouldn’t have considered. That’s one of the most interesting things about discussing artwork with someone, whether you made it or not.
As I’ve been preparing to make it available as a print next week, I’ve been thinking about the process of making it a lot. It was created for the Cheltenham Illustration Awards last year, but the story started much longer ago than that.
A few people have commented that my work reminds them of the Narnia books, or His Dark Materials - and yes, both of those were huge inspirations to me as a child. I’ve always been fascinated by fantasy worlds, and these stories that suggested there could be ways to visit them from our own world captured my imagination.
Maybe this is part of why I’ve always been very interested in mirrors, reflections, windows and doors in art… Which is often what art is itself, in a way.
Here are some pictures of the the oldest work I have that deals with the same ideas. Many years ago, I was living in London and as much as I adored everything that city has to offer, it didn’t take long for me to start growing incredibly homesick for quiet, rural nature.
I was working with installation and video, using reflections from mirrors and water and pinholes in walls to open windows from my studio to the places I longed for.
After I left London, that kind of work took a back seat for a while, but the concepts stayed with me. They began to evolve, from more abstract thoughts of escaping into nature, to entire worlds that took on a life of their own.
This time, I wasn’t only looking to escape, but to reflect the things I was experiencing too. A significant part of that was observing the changing landscape, its fragility, and the impact we have on it as modern humans.
I resolved that I wanted to return to making art based on these ideas, but I hadn’t figured out how to start doing it. The opportunity came when I saw the theme of the Cheltenham Illustration Awards - “Tales of the Uncanny” - it just seemed like the perfect moment.
Although this was made as a stand-alone piece, there’s still a lot more I’d like to do with the same themes.
In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.
Lots of people have been asking about prints of this piece, and I wanted to make it something special. I've been thinking about trying something new when it comes to selling prints for a long time, and this felt like the right moment to take the plunge, to run my own shop independently instead of on a marketplace, and offer something meaningful.
So, it will be available in a limited, digitally signed & numbered edition from my upcoming shop starting on Wednesday, 1st of July!
I’m really excited - it’s taken some time to get this set up, but the prints look amazing and I’m sure you will love them too. Later this week I'll also be sharing more of the story behind the illustration and my creation process!
If you want to join me on this journey and get notified when the shop goes live, you can sign up for updates here.
Hi.
You might be new around here, or you might have been following me for a while, but either way, hello. I’m Rowan. Here’s a short (re)introduction!
I’m an artist living in a small town in the UK. I’ve always lived in close proximity to nature, so it’s not surprising that this is a major influence on my work.
So are the stories that I grew up loving (and very much continue to), in books and in games, whether based in fantasy, science fiction or a reflection of our real world.
Over the years I’ve worked with a wide range of media. I went to art school and focused on video and installation art. Since then I’ve spent most of my time with digital and traditional media of various kinds, but I have a particular love for printmaking, the influence of which finds its way into my digital style too.
In recent years I also became obsessed with designing patterns, which I’ve long had an interest in (mostly through wearing them). Somehow it had never occurred to me that I could actually learn to make them, and since then I've had a great time exploring all the things they can be applied to... (you can find some of them in my shop).
My hobbies are also mostly creative too, including writing, photography, music production and most recently ceramics.
A lot of what I do is created with a desire to share something about my experiences with others, to communicate a feeling, an idea or a place. Sometimes those places are the ones I walk through every day. Sometimes they are places that exist only in my head. Either way, I want to share them and connect with people through doing so. I want my online presence to be about my art, so at times I can shy away from talking about myself, but I’m realising it’s ever more important to do so and is a part of making those connections.
Most of the subjects I choose are natural, and I’ve been an artist all my life working with lots of traditional media, but technology has always played a huge part in that, too. It’s also impossible to create art about nature without also thinking about humanity and the impact that we have on it. How our technological lives coexist alongside it, for better or for worse. I’ve been thinking about how I want to continue combining these things both in the art that I make and also in how I present it.
Social media can be a bane to us sometimes but one thing is certain - I’m really grateful that so many people from around the world have seen and appreciated my work, and connected with it in their own ways.
If you’d like another option to keep up with me than the unreliability of social media, I have a newsletter available here. It would mean a lot to me if you signed up for it. And I have some exciting things to share very soon. Thanks!
Here's the full cover illustration I did for New Winds ( @ghiblifanzine )! If you missed it last year you can now buy a copy here: https://studioghiblizine.bigcartel.com
In addition to the front, I also designed this pattern for the inside cover!
Here's the full cover illustration I did for New Winds ( @ghiblifanzine )! If you missed it last year you can now buy a copy here: https://studioghiblizine.bigcartel.com
We are all here.
In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.
Snowdrops 🌱
Today's sketch 🌿
Magpie moth & caterpillar study from my sketchbook 🦋🐛
I was charmed by their shared resemblance as so many caterpillars look completely different to their final forms.
Trying out acrylic markers (and a bit of alcohol marker) for the first time with these sketchbook doodles! Dreaming of green at new year... hope you all have a good one.