Camilla Perkins' vibrant characters clash brilliantly with their surroundings

Date
29 June 2015

Camilla Perkins is based in Brighton, and her illustrations use only the brightest hues which I hope are influenced by her seaside surroundings. We’ve not featured Camilla’s pictures since 2013, and it’s great to see how her style has developed since then. Shying away from collections of objects, it seems Camilla’s been perfecting her skills in illustrating the human form and the result is wonderful. Her figures are mainly surrounded by basic props and shapes, but the faces and features of her characters are marked out carefully in scratchy lines. In some images bold expanses of pattern applied as floors or walls are a lovely addition to all the brightness and it’s these details that really make Camilla’s work stand out.

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Camilla Perkins: Sapeurs

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Camilla Perkins: Sapeurs

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Camilla Perkins: Medium

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Camilla Perkins: Animo Collective

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Camilla Perkins: Other

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Camilla Perkins: Medium

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Camilla Perkins: Sussex

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Rebecca Fulleylove

Rebecca Fulleylove is a freelance writer and editor specialising in art, design and culture. She is also senior writer at Creative Review, having previously worked at Elephant, Google Arts & Culture, and It’s Nice That.

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