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Introducing Joe Webb

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Début Art is delighted to have been appointed by Joe Webb, a world renowned collage and oil painting artist. Joe is a full time artist, working with hand made collage and oil painting. Joe has a BA Fine Art degree from the UCA - University Of Creative Arts.

Joe repurposes found imagery to make thought provoking artworks. His work explores many issues including the environment, war and inequality.

Webb's work has become an online sensation with hundreds of thousands of people sharing his images on the internet. As well as going viral in the virtual world, Joe has exhibited and sold work internationally. His paintings, original collages and prints can be found in the Saatchi Gallery, 45 Park Lane and in the private collections of Coldplay, Eric Cantona and The Madden Brothers. His artwork has been used on album covers for well known artists such as Tears For Fears and Janelle Monae, inspired a music video by Coldplay and been featured in advertising and on book covers.

He supports, with artwork donations, charities such as The Eden Project, Heart Research UK and the The Big Issue.

Joe lives and works in the UK.

“Joe navigates a rich landscape with grace and humor, making nice with many recognizable visual pastimes. He plays them against each other in a way that puts different eras in dialogue, allowing characters to travel far from their 50’s Home Gardening Magazine roots to the far cosmos. He flirts with the themes of nostalgia and loss but ultimately composes lighthearted images that are in dialogue with today’s sampling culture, collapsing and hacking together sources from across the universe in fun and rudely jacked up color schemes.”

— Wangechi Mutu, internationally acclaimed artist

Recent articles

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Steven Heller on Peter Grundy (AKA Grundini)

Steven Heller, a member of the Art Director Hall of Fame since 1996 and author, co-author and editor of over 200 books on design covered Grundini in his latest article for the Daily Heller. Describing Peter, Steven wrote: " [he is] an exemplar of the commedia dell’arte style of data visualization, a maestro of transforming statistics into pictorial passion plays. Icons are his meat, and they are seasoned with wit and humor, color and conviviality. They brighten up the stage, the page and the screen. They scroll with a certain rock and roll." You can explore the article in full here You can find more brilliant work from Grundini here

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Eoin Ryan covers Trump's impact on electric vehicles.

Eoin Ryan's fantastic cover for Electric Hybrid Magazine's 30th Anniversary issue. The cover focuses on Trump's impact on electric vehicle development. The illustration contrasts Donald Trump’s head, filled with pollution and fumes against a fresh green eco background visualising fresh air and carbon neutrality. You can find more of Eoin's newest work here

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Lisa Sheehan / "It's a Rich Man's World"

Wired Magazine's Money 2025 money issue, aptly titled "It's a Rich Man's World," as imagined by artist Lisa Sheehan. How did she bring this piece to life? In her own words: "To make the credit card as authentic as possible I redrew the American Express pattern in Illustrator with the WIRED headline included. The card was then created in Cinema 4D and I drew the etching of Trump in photoshop. This all came together and was animated to give the feel of an apple pay screen. This was a multi disciplined approach, 2D textures drawn and then rendered in 3D." You can check out the animated piece and more of Lisa's work here.

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Welcome Sara Gironi Carnevale to Début Art

Welcome to Sara Gironi Carnevale who recently joined Début Art. Sara lives in Italy and has been illustrating since 2016. Sara works digitally but her process remains traditional in terms of brainstorming and composing. The illustrations are done in a sketchbook before refining them in Procreate and then finalising all artwork in Photoshop. Her work is vibrant, luminescent and dreamlike, with intricate details, strong concepts and compositions. Sara has the ability to present complex topics in a way that is visually easy to understand. Her illustrations can be seen in numerous magazines, newspapers, books and prints. She has also been experimenting with animation. See Sara's full portfolio here

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