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Zac Rossiter. At Meanwood park exploring his illustration style and creative influences
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Back in July we caught with up Zac Rossiter an extremely talented Leeds based illustrator and stockist of FLF almost since we began. We decided to grab a coffee and head over to Meanwood park the point of inspiration behind some of Zac's most popular prints and the nearest green space to our bricks and mortar.
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1. How long have you been a professional illustrator for Zac?
Almost 3 years since graduating from Leeds arts university in 2020.
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2. We love the use of primary colours within your work, how did you come up with this style
Being colourblind I often find that colours can appear a little bit dim so i am always trying to amp it up a bit and also i am really inspired by the art movement called Fauvism. Which is the idea that you take the colour that you think you see, or see a little bit of and you make it really bold.
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4. A lot of your work features architectural drawings of locations How do you decide on what to do next?
I often get asked about commissions or when i am going to create a print of a particular location, but for me it's important to be quite familiar with an area before I draw it, its that connection which helps me to create and make it my own.
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5. Your prints featuring Meanwood park have been some of the most popular pieces sold at FLF, what inspired you about Meanwood Park?
Whilst I was a student, I lived in this blocky accommodation on the outskirts of Leeds which felt like a concrete metropolis with no resemblance to the grassy area where I grew up in Lancashire. One day as a uni trip we came to Meanwood park and it felt like we left Leeds and I ended up coming back every day for a whole week with friends, it sort of became my safe haven, a reminder that I didn't live in a complete urban jungle.
6. Do you have any advice for someone wanting to sell their illustrations?
Creating a shop and handling postage and packaging isn't as a hard as you think, the hard part is figuring out how to turn it into a full time job and way of living. My advice is to start your business as a creative side hustle. I've also found that being an illustrator doesn't have to be as a officious as a job title. For me, I said I was so I am.
Click here to see Zac's collection of prints available at FLF.