Ben Elliott is an Illustrator working across book illustration and printmaking.
He works in etching, wood engraving, and woodcut.
His practice diagnoses landscapes as vessels of memory, and is reflective of memories growing up on the banks of the River Thames, with childhood summers spent in the Yorkshire Dales. It is Britain’s eclectic landscapes, the Modern British artists, the pastoral, local history, and modernist literature, that continue to shape the narratives and textures of his work. Ben seeks to foster a sensitive dialogue between word and image, time and place,
begging
a return to tactile, tangible craftsmanship.
Ben studied illustration at the Edinburgh College of Art, and read art history and literature at York.
He has exhibited in England and Scotland.
Recent projects include:
Illustrating novels and stories by Ernest Hemingway, Lawrence Durrell, Virginia Woolf, and Jon Fosse, to the poetry of the Orwell Prize shortlisted poet, Oliver Lewis.
For publishing and book illustration collaborations, please do contact me.
Inspiring his practice, Ben is a bibliophile, and
has worked as a researcher for a country house in
the Howardian Hills, in a library and archive of an Oxford College, at an auctioneers in the
Yorkshire Dales, and as a bookseller in Edinburgh.