Meet our illustrators

Tim Marrs
www.timmarrs.co.uk

Tim is a BA graduate of Humberside University and Master of Arts/MA Post graduate of Central Saint Martins, London. Tim’s illustration career spans over 14 years and Tim is widely recognised for his digital illustration work of sophisticated montage of textural mark making, drawn imagery and photographs. Alongside an ability to effortlessly incorporate products and hand rendered type to ensure cohesive visual results. Tim’s previous clients include Nike, Pepsi, Publicis & Hal Riney, Puffin Books, Random House, Scholastic, Ogilvy and Mather to name but a few. Tim lives with his partner Shelley and daughter Charlotte in a big blue house by the sea.....

“I enjoy working on the all of the Grant Thornton illustrations just because I can get my pencil and sketch book out again, if I had to name one (favourite image) it would have to be the reaching a goal image because the narrative gave me a chance to draw helicopters and lorries again. A particular favourite pass time, back when I was a budding artist at 9 or 10.”

Aude Van Ryn
www.heartagency.com 

Aude is a graduate of St Martins School of Art and the Royal College of Art. In 1998 she was invited to join the artist agency, Heart, based in London and New York. Aude has developed an expertise in communicating values of branding with the use of semi-abstract imagery. Aude’s understanding and assimilation of art and design is intelligent and sensitive. For a long time she’s been recognised internationally as an influential practitioner in this field of design. Commissions have included BP, WPP, Bioscience communications, Nestle, Hewlett Packard, JP Morgan Bank, The Guardian and The New York Times.

“I enjoy creating illustrations that keep a visual simplicity and contemporary graphic quality. Working with white backgrounds is an interesting challenge, by carefully composing elements, a real sense of space and perspective can be achieved.”

Alan Baker
www.heartagency.com
Alan is a graduate of Central Saint Martins, London. Alan’s illustration international career is highly regarded for his work using oil on canvas, linen, wood and paper. Alan His previous clients include Penguin, Los Angeles Times (US), Esquire, BBC Worldwide, The Independent, Hodder, Time Warner, The Telegraph, The Times and Faber & Faber

 “I like to take people along a path which leads to a place they don’t expect to be. They might discover a personal or political subtext or they might simply enjoy the view.”

Paul Chappell
www.gorarddean.com

Paul graduated from Harrow School of Art and has been working in the design, advertising and publishing world ever since. Paul currently works for the Gorard Dean creative agency.

"The work for Grant Thornton involves a way of thinking that illustrators often have drummed out of them at an early age, lateral thinking. Clever use of illustrations can help express an idea or concept with greater clarity in a conversely more complicated world".

Sophia Augusta
www.seeplats.com

Working and moving between Glasgow, Stockholm, New York and London Sophia's illustration work has come to combine and distil influences from all over. Inspired by the challenge of adding depth to complex concepts through illustration her work focuses on combining and distilling ideas into clean imagery. Seeing the potential in cross-platform and international dialogue Sophia co-founded the multi-disciplinary artist collective PLATS in 2005 and has been working both independently and in various constellations with its other members ever since. PLATS members work within different mediums, cultures and schools of thought through collaborations, exhibitions and events most recently at the Notting Hill Arts Club in London and the Spinnerei in Leipzig, Germany. Her clients include Douglas & Gordon, Vernacular Press, Hamish Hamilton, Picador books, FLIM, Hitherto, Shelter, Graven Images and her work with PLATS has been recognized in international magazines and publications.

"I enjoyed the challenge of creating illustrations to portray broad concepts, fleshing them out in interesting ways, whilst focusing on the elements that are of specifically important to the Grant Thornton brand."

Mat Williams
www.etch-n-sketch.co.uk

Mat graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2008. Since then he has worked as a freelance Illustrator and general creative, specializing in drawing, painting and print-making for various production companies, publications and corporate clients.

"Working with Grant Thornton was an enjoyable experience. It's great when a commercial client gives you quite a lot of freedom with ideas and concepts and aren't too restrictive. Having to illustrate such broad global sectors in one single image was a challenge, but a good one."