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About Me


I specialise in calligraphic lettering-(hand written or digitally enhanced)
and have been working as an artist / illustrator for about 25 years. My main field of work is for the publishing industries - greeting cards, book jackets etc. However I'm always interested in unusual projects, one offs,etc and will accept commissioned work
You would be most welcome at my website if you were to click here....
For those of you who like to watch paint dry, here's a short video (left) of the preliminary work for the following image.
new calligraphic logo:-
check out the author here
An updated version of proposed book cover
Yes, I know that's Zapfino font - the calligraphic stuff is in the background
Exhibitions Include:-
Lancashire Artist’s Exhibition, Harris Art Gallery, Preston 1977/78
Various ‘at work’ exhibitions at Samlesbury Hall, Preston 1981-1997
Platform Gallery Clitheroe 1998
Commonwealth Conference Centre, London 2002
Pendle Heritage Centre, Barrowford 2003/2006
Lewis Textile Museum, Blackburn 2004
Artizana, Prestbury, Cheshire 2004
...And just out of interest... I've been getting involved on the artistic directory forum and having a go at the contests and collaborations section:-
There's an open mural going on if anyone wants to join in.
Click here....

My Interests

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Some new work here:-

Custom Tattoo designs
Due to several requests, I've started to offer one-off original tattoo designs which can be commissioned to your specifications. Please message me if you want any more information:-

New band logo:-

CD sleeve artwork for Psychic Tribal Orchestra:-

I'm interested in people, all aspects of art, literature, live and recorded music - particularly scandinavian jazz/electronica, animation, film, fell walking, poetry

I'd like to meet:



anyone creating/requiring unusual artwork, art publishers, book publishers, art editors, and anyone else for that matter

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Music:

Peter Hammill, Jonas Hellborg, Ozric Tentacles, Henry Rollins, Nils Petter Molvaer, Steve Tibbetts, Choying Drolma, Yungchen Lhamo, Savarra Nazarkhan, VDGG, King Crimson, Terje Rypdal, Eivind Aarset, Dhafer Youssef, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Stephan Micus, Duoud, Anouar Brahem, Jan Garbarek, Ketil Bjornstad, Neil Young, John Martyn, Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, Stina Nordenstam, Susanna and the magical Orchestra, David Sylvian, Biosphere, Bjork, Higher Intelligence Agency, Canteloube, Gorecki, Michael Nyman, Yann Tiersen, Hawkwind, Tim Blake, Pulsar, Christy Moore, Goran Bregovic, Rokia Traore, Khaled, Faudel, Jocelyn Pook, Tom McRae
and then for a change - Jose Padilla, Space Buddha, System 7, Bola, Muki,

Movies:

Anything by Tarkovsky, Withnail and I, Amelie, Dark City, Kiss me Deadly, Big Sleep, Sunset Boulevarde, Ghost in the Shell, Bergman, Pan's Labyrinth, 21 grams, David Copperfield, Great Expectations,

Television:

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Books:

Hermann Hesse, Khalil Gibran, Raymond Chandler,James Cain, Don De Lillo, W B Yeats, Ted Hughes, Wordsworth, Keats, Roger McGough, Sigrid Undset, Yukio Mishima,Ursula le Guin, Lawrence Durrell, Michael Ondaatje, Dumas, Dostoevsky, Phillip Pullman, Tennessee Williams, John Wyndham, Woody Allen, f Scott Fitzgerald, Mervyn Peake, John Fowles, Shakespeare, John Donne, Jean Giono, Marcel Pagnol,Henry Rollins, Coleridge

Paper Sculpture work

Freeform work and sketchbook roughs

Miscellaneous

wedding placecard

private commission

exercise with versal letters

Illustration for Hans Christian Anderson story - The Penman

Acetate stitched book

LINKS

www.rcrux.com
www.seedstitch.com
www.artisticdirectory.co.uk

My Blog

New website and exhibition details

New gallery website open at www.richardcrookes.co.ukI will also be taking part in North Yorkshire Open Studios 2008 more details click here...
Posted by crux on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:46:00 PST