Millers Junction spotlight: Lauren Mortimer

Lauren Mortimer is an illustrator and one of the newest members of our creative studio Millers Junction. She studied at Central Saint Martins from 2005-09 gaining a BA in Fashion Communication with Promotion, before deciding to pursue her love of illustration and design.

Her drawings make reference to early children’s illustrations and with a love of the hand-made she produces new life from old. She has a particular affinity for the natural world, but typically incorporates a surreal twist in her work, to evoke an air of mystery, curiosity and wonder.

She loves ‘found objects’, birds, vintage children’s books, and patterned fabrics. Oh, and she loves pencils. We love her pencil-heavy narritive style and play on words seen here in two of her pieces “Gun Bunny” and “Bear With Me”. Hopefully we’ll see some screenprints from her soon