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Welcome to the website

of award winning illustrator

Nigel Spaven​

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Visual communication has an instant and lasting impact and helps to enrich our lives. It can be used to inform, educate, challenge, provoke, help us understand - or simply make us laugh! I have produced illustrations for a diverse range of clients and so my work covers a variety of styles and subjects. Please click on the images below, and if you think I could help with your project please contact me.

Cartoon and Illustration

This is an illustration of child and carer interaction. The illustration was created by artist Nigel Spaven of Spaven Art Ltd. The illustration depicts four multicultural children with two adults beside a frozen park pond in winter, with ducks on the ice. One child and adult are making a snowman. Another child has brought a sledge and the other two children feed the ducks from a bag of food held by an adult. The colours of the illustration are vivid and dynamic with a unique style, allowing for easy understanding of the situation depicted.

Health and Safety Illustration

This is an illustration of safety protocol on a worksite. The illustration was created by artist Nigel Spaven of Spaven Art Ltd. The image shows an untidy worksite surrounded by heras fencing, with tools and equipment scattered on the ground next to a dumper truck. An operative has one leg entangled in the trailing cable of an abandoned jackhammer and is falling backwards into an open trench. The colours of the illustration are vivid and dynamic with a unique style, allowing for easy understanding of the situation depicted.

Book Illustration

This is an illustration of the interior of a wizard's house. The illustration was created by Nigel Spaven of Spaven Art Ltd. The illustration depicts a rabbit wizard in red waistcoat, yellow bow tie and blue long-tailed coat, holding a green top hat in with stars emanating from it. He holds a wooden staff with glowing orb attached to the top. The cottage is cosy rustic with an orange glow from a blazing log fire in a stone fireplace. A cat is curled up in a comfy chair and a bed covered in a tartan blanket. A rainbow spectrum is shining through a high, round window. A telescope and star charts lay atop an untidy book cabinet. Tables are covered in an assortment of potions, candles, parchments, notebooks, corked colourful bottles. A light from an open trapdoor with steps leading down. The colours of the illustration are vivid and dynamic with a unique style, allowing for easy understanding of the situation depicted.

Educational Illustration

This is a photograph of Educational Early Learning material. The illustrations were designed by artist Nigel Spaven of Spaven Art Ltd, commissioned by The Blast Programme, UK. The photograph depicts illustrated storybooks, colouring pages, word association pictures, spelling and communication aids. The colours of the illustration are vivid and dynamic with a unique style, allowing for easy understanding of the situation depicted.

Fine Art

Animated Video

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This is an illustration for a CD cover. The illustration was created by Nigel Spaven of Spaven Art Ltd. The illustration depicts a Water Tribe of people walking across the clear sand of the ocean floor heading towards a distant light in an sea cave. The tribe are dressed in seaweed and shell clothing and wear large shells as hats. Some are warriors, wearing shell armour and carrying long shell tipped spears. Shafts of sunlight penetrate the surface of the water above and undersea mountains can be made out in the distance.
This is an illustration of safety awareness in the community. The illustration was created by artist Nigel Spaven of Spaven Art Ltd, commissioned by Morrison Group. The illustration depicts three illustrated community safety video sleeves. One cover with two young friends with their bikes, only one friend wears a helmet. Another cover depicts four unsure school friends standing at the entrance of roadworks barriers. The third depicts a warning sign on the safety fencing around a work site, with dumper truck, mound of soil and storage container in background. The colours of the illustration are vivid and dynamic with a unique style, allowing for easy understanding of the situation depicted.
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