you get your ideas? Alan: Out of the air, but I guess really we
are unconsciously stealing from around us. u SB Do you collect
anything? Alan: Toy buses, old letterbox money boxes, tin toys,
old tins and packaging, old and foreign polo packets, puncture
repair outfit tins and records. u SB Do you keep a scrapbook?
Alan: No, but I keep over a hundred files of reference. u SB Tell
us about a favourite project you’ve recently completed. Alan:
Re-selling the rights to one of my children’s books, Two Tiny
Mice. u SB Who are your art heroes? Alan: No-one in particular,
but I like a lot of conceptual art, Fluxus, Brit Art. u SB Who are
your musical heroes? Alan: Kinks, Nick Drake, Beatles, Stones,
Nirvana, Elbow. u SB If you were not an illustrator, what would
you be? Alan: A musician, or maybe a postman with a country
round. u SB If you could live anywhere, where would you go?
Alan: To the world in the animated Lloyds bank adverts with that
funny music. u SB If you could travel back in time, who would be
the one person you would want to meet? Alan: My father. I didn’t
like him and he frightened me. I would like to understand him,
and therefore myself.
Alan Baker’s Favourites
Café The Saltdean Beach Cafe
Shop www.theconservatoryhove.co.uk
Magazine Mojo
Art Equipment/Tool Staedtler Mars Lumochrom black pencil
Website www.youtube.com - extreme shepherding
Holiday/Travel Destination Anywhere that I haven’t been yet
www.illustrationweb.com/alanbaker
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