Recycling And Illustration.

Two illustrators who use recycling as part of their work are Paul Thurlby and Gary Taxali. Both Taxali and Thurlby often work on  found paper, card, old books, newspapers or advertising material, in fact anything that catches their eye.

 

 

  



 Paul Thurlby's prints are accentuated by the distressed nature of the "canvas" upon which he prints.The scuffs and tears of age are as much part of the design as the print itself and the imperfect nature of the print helps to create a complete image and not just a new print on re-used material.

In a similar way Gary Taxali also uses found material as a canvas, but he also collages other found material into his work, postage stamps, old shopping lists and notebook pages play as big a part in his work as the printing ink itself.

 

 This way of re-using  material, which looks back at least as far as the Dadaist, appeals greatly to my mindset, it seems a much more beneficial and ecologically sound way of recycling, as opposed to making a new sheet of paper out of old paper. That's also a good way of recycling, but not as good IMHO.