Sean Willmott Take II

We had an article a few posts ago (HERE) about Sean Willmott being a finalist for the BBC Wild Artist of the Year competition.  Sean's answered a few questions that I've been asking my class mates; here are his response with some images of his work over the last year.

What are you exhibiting at the show?
I will be exhibiting 4 projects, 3 of them are closely linked as they are to do with animal conservation and protection and the other is a set of 5.1 surround sound speakers, hand built and hand painted that will be blasting out some tunes at the degree show.

Have you done any work outside of university?
I have done some work experience at MADISON SOHO, which is an ad/design company that work all over the world. I have also been fortunate to go work at Chimp Eden, Jane Goodall Institute South Africa where I had an amazing first hand experience working in conservation and also observing wild chimpanzees!! 

What is your preferred working environment? (studio, home, music, outside etc???) 

I like working form home but that’s because I have a separate studio, so I can get away from the distractions of being at home and crack on with some work. This also means I can put on some loud music whilst I work.

What do you like to listen to whilst working?

I have to have some sort of background noise going on when I work, otherwise I get distracted by the silence.lol I will put on a good animal documentary or American series if I’m not listening to some music. I’ve recently got into the TED talks, which are pretty interesting.

What's does your next project entail? 

I don’t have a specific project in mind just some ideas form sketchbooks that I want to finish. One of my ideas is to create some work using the WWF logo but that’s all I’m telling…

Sean Willmott

Well done to Sean Willmott for being a finalist in the BBC Wildlife Artist of the year 2012!  Sean had entered the black and white category using photos to draw from when he visited South Africa.  Sean is diverse in his work by that he is able to capture and create natural and relaxing docuart, but he will be showing something at IDENTITY 2012 which will be of a louder volume... not his hair btw.  Here is his entry for the BBC:

Chimp Staring