SHANTELL MARTIN

Shantell Martin is one of my bro's friends and is an Incredible Illistration Artist, and I keep a constant eye on her inspiring work. 

Since Shantell graduated from London’s Central Saint Martins University of Art & Design with first class honors in graphic design and illustration in 2003, she has been expanding conventional definitions of drawing, using it as a base from which to storm and occupy the design, fashion and music scenes. After a while living in Japan evolving her work she has now moved to New York where she continues to expand her creativity and ideas. 

 Shantell Martin has redefined the concept of drawing—using it as a base from which to storm the fashion, music and club worlds.

She collaborates with a number of designers, musicians, DJs and her audience produce fresh, continually evolving art and design that challenge,inspire, amaze and mystify. Below you can see how the immense versatility of her work allows it to still have the same impact on what ever canvas she uses, whether it be a car door or a human body. 

She started with a simple pen and paper to create delicate, intricate and ever-changing otherworldly scenes, of populated quasi-humans and other not-quite-familiar creatures, which themselves seem to be continually engaged in the process of evolving into something else. Of her drawings she says: 

“The lines are spontaneous and intuitive, drawing for me is a line that flows between the past and the future without touching the sides.”

BELOW SHOWS ONE OF SHANTELLS GUERRILLA LIGHT PROJECTIONS

Her drawings which have been exhibited from London to Tokyo. She is now also, an increasingly sought after VJ Shantell has created two unique art forms—both proudly low-tech—which allow her to bring her work to a wider, club-going audience. One, which she calls PPP (pen, paper, projector) and does regularly at an experimental mixed-media collaboration called Test Tone at Super Deluxe in Tokyo’s Nishi-Azabu, involves her covering the walls with an interconnected veil of hallucinatory lines and images to sounds of an eclectic mix of live performances. 

She sees herself as providing a “visual connection between the audience and the performers”.

oi oi Digital Graffiti from shantell martin on Vimeo.

Shantell also has her 1st solo dvd - KOOBS coming out which shows a diverse selection of short videos and would be well worth checking out! 

For the more high-tech work that she does she uses a wacom board, which I myself have just invested in one but she shows the true ability of using one!  

I think she is a Fantastic Artist and a highly motivated exciting person to know and it is always exciting to follow her new creations and ideas!