Jonny Hannah
Jonny Hannah is a British printmaker who specialises in poster-style art. He has published beautiful screenprinted books and a lot of other screenprinted epehemera from his own business, Cakes & Ale Press. He uses text a lot within his work, and like Alice Pattullo, I feel that he looks quite deeply into traditions and groups of people. His work is heavily influenced by music and also poetry, which he has illustrated in books in the past. The similarity that his work bears to posters is really exciting to me; it feels very direct and to the point. He uses text as an integral part of his illustration, it is often paired with a figure that is within the image, even occasionally placing text on the subject, as seen above. A lot of the books he publishes are aimed at children, and so the images are a lot of fun and very light-hearted.
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