Ian Pollock

Ian Pollock was born in Cheadle in 1950, where he went on to study. He went to the Manchester College of art and design then in 1970 went to Manchester polytechnic. After he graduated he went to the royal college of art and in 1976 became a freelance illustrator.
Since becoming a freelance illustrator he has publishing books such as ‘the miracles of Christ’ and ‘beware of the cat’.  As well as publishing book Ian Pollock has also produced posters for the royal Shakespeare Company. He work often appears in magazines and newspapers due to its style.
In 1984 Ian Pollock published a cartoon version of king lear, the reason for this was to make Shakespeare accessible to all ages as when Ian was in school he didn’t connect with the works of Shakespeare and hoped a cartoon version would encourage children to enjoy and read it more.
in 1997 he was commissioned to create stamps for the bicentenary of Mary Shelleys birth.
I like the idea of designing stamps as I feel that when you get a letter the stamp it usually the only colour seen and it catches the eyes attention so I would like to try and create a few when I’m older also the fact that they are so small would incorporate problems of there own which I think would be fun to overcome. Overall I think Ian Pollocks illustrations are nice but again they are not the type of thing I would want to create and I doubt I would get inspiration form his illustrating’s but I would like to look at the stamps he has created.

 

see more work at http://www.eastwing.co.uk/artist/ianpollock/