Hannah Tofts : a Creative Creature : a designer/artist/illustrator/teacher.
I’ve worked as an designer/illustrator in 3d, big and small, collage and paint for over 24 years, in London, then Amsterdam. Living there for 14 years with joy and inspiration, love for the colour, pattern, inspiring design, quality public space, cafes and my bicycle. I recently moved to the west coast of Scotland with love for a vegetable garden and the big outdoors, painting and teaching again. I’m busy wherever making with whatever I find from cast-away cardboard and plastics, to tulips and courgettes. Excited to show and inspire others to look around them, to create with fun and play…
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I’ve been teaching again, this time not children or art students but adults who’ve all been told they can’t draw or were too scared to let go and have fun. I’ve been utterly inspired by their responses in these unusual locations. I’ve had to improvise with the challenging weather, unreliable subject matter and learn to live within the seasons however wet. A contrast to teaching BA and MA design students in mud free cities; we never got to draw freshly wrung cockerels at college…
I think in terms of play, fun, performance, atmosphere and in any medium. It’s all about learning through an experience or sensation, being inspired, that gives me, and you energy.
CONCEPT CREATION DIRECTION : for children’s TV, animation, interactive play and learn, promotion products, stationary, gift-lines and books; with 15 titles in childrens’ non fiction books, early-learning, play, make and do…
Look at Children’s Books, Illustration and ZZEBBRAA under FOLIO for a quick overview of my approach.
Contact Hannah at: hannahtofts@hotmail.com Graphic Design MA RCA
