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Ben Holland's pen and ink illustrations of 'everyday' places in Newcastle

Ben Holland is an illustrator, currently specialising in hand-drawn pen and ink illustrations of offbeat places in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

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Via Creative Boom submission. All images courtesy of the artist

Via Creative Boom submission. All images courtesy of the artist

Where "local artists" tend mainly to concentrate on the Tyne Bridge and Angel of the North, Ben's subject matter is the everyday places where life is lived... from the pub to the backstreet art house cinema, the newsagent to the barbershop. To Ben, these places signify Newcastle more than the city's major landmarks.

Ben's work has been exhibited at venues across the city as well as at The Biscuit Factory's UK Young Artist of the Year Awards. Prints are currently sold online and via The Baltic Gallery Shop.

Find out more at www.lowmoonoverhightown.com. Later this year Ben will be exhibiting a new project concentrating exclusively on old, defunct and redeveloped cinema buildings.

Detailed pen and ink illustration of a corner newsagent shop with "Evening Chronicle" signage, brick upper storey with sashed windows, and a star in the night sky above
Detailed pen and ink drawing of a multi-storey brick building with G. Scott shopfront at street level, featuring sash windows, decorative stonework and a flag above the entrance
Ben Holland's pen and ink illustration of Jazz Barber Shop in Newcastle, with angelic figures on the building's upper storey and text from William Blake's poem The Tyger
Pen and ink illustration of a narrow alleyway between brick buildings with a cinema entrance marked CINEMA on the left and an open umbrella on the wet tiled ground
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