The Graduation Exhibition

I can’t believe it’s already been almost two weeks ago that I waved England goodbye. We’ve had such a successful show at the Candid Artis Trust gallery. 75 Exhibitors this year! I felt so proud of my classmates. All the work just came together so well in this gorgeous gallery.

After a nervous week, on Saturday I could finally switch into party mode at ‘friends and family day’. Family and best friends all flew over from the Netherlands (isn’t that amazing?!) to check out my work and celebrate with me. It felt great to be standing there with my baby in my arms and to think back to what an important year it has been.

Below some pictures of the show. I was so overwhelmed that I only shot some fast pictures with my phone, so apologies for any bad quality.

Special thanks go to Zaou Vaughan for providing me with the most gorgeous needle felted puppets to show of the main characters from my picture book ‘Looking for Tom‘.

For more info about the exhibitors or photos from the exhibition, please visit:
http://www.cambridgemashow.com
http://www.facebook.com/csacbi
http://www.instagram.com/csacbi

Part of our show has been moved to the Ruskin Gallery, where you can still visit our work until the 4th of March.

MA Children's Book Graduation Exhibition 2017

 

 

MA Children's Book Graduation Exhibition 2017

MA Children's Book Graduation Exhibition 2017

 

MA Children's Book Graduation Exhibition 2017

 

MA Children's Book Graduation Exhibition 2017

 

MA Children's Book Graduation Exhibition 2017

 

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MA Children's Book Graduation Exhibition 2017

 

MA Children's Book Graduation Exhibition 2017

 

MA Children's Book Graduation Exhibition 2017

Life at the MA – Part IIII

The last out of four blogposts showing pages from my sketchbooks.

Part IIII: Exploring colour!

 

sketch at fitzwilliam museum by ellen vesters illustrator MA childrens book illustration

 

sketch of bike repair shop by ellen vesters illustrator ma childrens book illustration

 

building site in utrecht by ellen vesters illustrator ma childrens book illustration

 

painting rotterdam central station by ellen vesters illustrator ma childrens book illustration

 

painting band meeting by ellen vesters illustrator ma childrens book illustration

 

painting colour by ellen vesters illustrator ma childrens book illustration

 

painting colour by ellen vesters illustrator ma childrens book illustration

 

illustrator ellen vesters sketching in studio

Art Rotterdam

I was bouncing off the walls with excitement when Citizen M e-mailed me to test drive their Rotterdam hotel and even included two tickets to Art Rotterdam!

Needless to say me and my birthday girl sister had loads of fun.
(everything was remote controlled! including the moodlight-lit-bathroom-space-cabin!)
(there even was a Moleskine sketchbook waiting for me in the hotel room!)

Ellen Vesters visiting Citizen M and Art Rotterdam Ellen Vesters visiting Citizen M and Art Rotterdam Ellen Vesters visiting Citizen M and Art Rotterdam
Ellen Vesters visiting Citizen M and Art Rotterdam

The stand I absolutely loved the most was that of art gallery Canvas International Art, promoting artist Shen Chen.
Let the landscape below hypnotize you…

Shen Chen Untitled No10277-0912 Acrylic on Canvas

Thank you Citizen M!