Artist Interview: Shen Plum

We love it when people get in touch with us and our little website. We especially love it when those people are creative types who make amazingly wonderfully beautiful creations that just make us burst with smiles.

Shen Plum is one such creative peep. I guess I was captivated by the simplicity & narrative that she brings to each piece, the soft hues and the odd, yet natural relativity of scale and depth. There’s also that attention to detail and craft that I can’t seem to get over too.

So anyway, the lovely Shen was kind enough to answer a few questions for us which are below. have a read and enjoy. x

When did you start drawing? When did you realise this was what you wanted to do?

i started to draw when i was in kindergarten, my mom looked at my drawings and thought i sucked at it, but i just kept drawing stuff, so she took me to a after-school art class, and my interest for it developed more and more from there.

How has your style changed over time? Has this been a conscious evolution?

yup, change is good, i used to paint/draw differently, i guess i just realize more what i enjoy doing and what i’m best at.

The backgrounds often have a lovely soft hue. What do you paint on?

my dad has these paper from the 80’s, they are stained and smell weird now, but they’re interesting to draw on.

You’ve also thrown scale out the window, what affect do you think this has on your images?

scale as in giant fox and tiny human? it’s just fun for me to mess things up a little bit, i’m not really aware that i’m doing that.

There are some reoccurring images (foxes, bright orby necklace things, trees) – do they have a deeper meaning?

nope, i just think they look cool.

I notice you designed a rabbit tee for super superficial – how’d that come about?

i drew that vamp bunny a while ago, submitted it to ss, and they liked it so they printed it out on their tees, they made it on 3 different color tees and they did a great job printing it, i was surprised and happy when i got the samples.

Any other buyables we should be aware of?

um graniph is carrying my bunny tees if you’re into..bunnies. i’m also selling some prints on little paper planes.

Oh, and the YeahYeahYeah’s pic of Karen with her face in another dimension – is that something for her, or for you as a fan?

i guess it’s a fan thing. my friend who wants to marry karen o, told me about this tshirt contest yyys’ holding, so we entered and that was my design for the contest.

Who is your favorite/designer artist right now?

there are way too many to name so i guess i’ll just skip this… :)

What are you working on right…now?

right…now a couple of things, drawing more stuff for supersweet magazine, and doing this collective thing with my buddy dreams&rubies (http://dreamsandrubies.blogspot.com/)

Thanks to Shen Plum for answering our Q’s all the way from sunny wintry Toronto.

posted: February 24th, 2010 | by: tomagotchi | perma: link | tags: artist interview, drawing, foxes, illustration, interview, shen plum, supersuperficial, wolves | 2 Comments »

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