The Patternbank team cant wait to get their hands on Olaf Hajek’s new book, Black Antoinette. A collection of Hajek’s most recent editorial contracts and commercial portraits. Olaf Hajek, who was born in 1965 in Rendsburg, Germany and is now based in Berlin, is currently one of the worlds most successful and well-known illustrative artists.
If you happen to be in Berlin this week, check out Gestalten Space, which is exhibiting some of the works to celebrate the book launch. July 5-29th
Collage is always an inspiring and creative method of producing amazing art and textile statements. These beautiful and captivating pieces are the work of New Jersey artist Jill Ricci. Patternbank love her composition of layers and colours, that evoke a contradictory and simultaneous sense of realness and fantasy. Taking visual inspiration from all corners of the global, Jill’s work entwines elements of Morocco, Berlin and Vietnam. Check out more of Jill’s work at jillricci.com
Gustavo Oritz creates these wonderful paintings on wood and canvas which were shown at the Pure Evil Gallery in East London. Influenced by colonial art as well as native indigenous artistic practices, Oritz combines the whimsical elements of Native art with the unexpected juxtapositions of Surrealism – creating a wonderful atmosphere of surprise, charm and simplicity. “The strong use of colour and the patterns of clearly defined shapes afforded by the medium of collage give an air of childlike naivety and understated humour to my paintings which offer narratives of the wonder and enchantment of human experience.” states Gustavo Oritz
