Andrew Spriggs

I have been producing illustrations for fun for about 35 years, and I trained as an illustrator at Humberside College of Further Education between 1982 and 1985, graduating with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design, specialising in illustration.

I worked in the graphic design industry for about thirteen years and I work currently in Environmental Services at Derbyshire County Council as a clerk, producing artwork for booklets occasionally for Health & Safety purposes, as well as one-off poster designs and cartoons.

My particular interest is in maps of imaginary countries (not the Tolkein type) and I believe that I have got this down to a ‘fine art’. The idea is to make an image that certainly looks like a map from a distance, but which finally, on closer inspection, appears to have been drawn by hand. As an illustrator, I can turn my hand to any style or medium.

Ideally, I would like to be able to produce illustrations for websites, books or other publications, and I would like to be able to produce these either traditionally or on computer.