Derek Bainton Illustration

Watercolour

A0 (1189mm x 841mm) Gateway Site Visitor Maps - 2024

The Valleys Regional Park spans southwest from Llyn Llech Owain Country Park in Cross Hands all the way to Cwmcarn Forest Drive in the southeast. This area was once known as the South Wales Coalfields. Since the decline of the heavy mining industry, nature has reclaimed these stunning and unique landscapes.

A playfully dark mural and exhibition of work that explores the sometimes tense relationship that exists between the Illustration and the Fine Art world.

Newport City Public Art Installation, 2020

“Coming Home in the City of Newport” is a narratively rich artwork that explores the theme of home and what it comes to mean to us, through a sense of storytelling. In response to an open brief, I initially researched the Newport Wetlands National Nature Reserve, an environmental jewel of Newport, whose importance sometimes goes quietly unnoticed. The artwork merges from outside to inside and vice-versa depending on which way the viewer walks past. The outside wetlands blend into a homely interior, whose residents are symbolised by cherished keepsakes and hats of different kinds.

These large panels form part of a series of works installed throughout the Children’s Wards at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.

The theme followed a young patient’s arrival at hospital, preparing for treatment, operation and recovery. I used the metaphor of diving into the sea to ease the anxiety of going under anaesthetic, then coming up for air and exploring the beach and rock pools with coming around and recovery.

Front Cover, Welsh Language Picture Book, 2023

Back Cover, Welsh Language Picture Book, 2023

Double Page Spread, Welsh Language Picture Book, 2023

Double Page Spread, Welsh Language Picture Book, 2023

Double Page Spread, Welsh Language Picture Book, 2023

Double Page Spread, Welsh Language Picture Book, 2023

Double Page Spread, Welsh Language Picture Book, 2023

Front and back cover artwork for Picture Book, Written by Lucy Owen, Illustrated by Derek Bainton, Published by Atebol.

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Written by Lucy Owen, Illustrated by Derek Bainton, Published by Atebol

Graphic Short Story - Page 1 of 4

Graphic Short Story - Page 2 of 4

Graphic Short Story - Page 3 of 4

Graphic Short Story - Page 4 of 4

Mixed Media, 60cm x 11cm

Aquatint Etch, 10cm x 8cm

Aquatint Etch, 10cm x 8cm

Cooper plate etch

Watercolour and Ink 17cm x 23cm

Watercolour and Ink 17cm x 23cm

Watercolour and Ink 17cm x 23cm

Watercolour and Ink 17cm x 23cm

Watercolour and Ink 17cm x 23cm

Watercolour and Ink 17cm x 23cm

Watercolour and Ink 17cm x 23cm

1189mm x 841mm

Illustrated, Designed and Printed onto Aluminium Di-Bond

Working Drawings for the Valleys Regional Park Map

Visual scribe from series of talks about Homelessness not being just about Housing