Jay Ryan is someone whose work I have liked for a number of years. he started out screen printing posters for his band. As time went on he began to make posters for other bands and for venues. He by chance met a group of screen printed poster makers that sell work all over the world and he now makes posters daily. he had released a few books, has his work exhibited at galleries and often visits conferences and universities to talk about his work. he says that his posters "aim to attain the same goals as other concert posters, but using raccoons and toasters instead of skulls, breasts and hot rods."
He creates screen prints without using any digital design which gives his work a really nice gritty, scratchy hand crafted feel. Because of this the line quality in his work differs from other screen printed work making it stand out. The number of colours in his work vary hugely but he always manages to create a balanced composition, I have been concentrating on his work with limited number of colours because of the restrictions applied to this project. Looking at his work has given me some ideas of combinations that could work. The final thing that I think makes his work stand out is his creativity with subject matter and composition, he experiments with scale, subject and characters in some very unusual ways. lots of his compositions are complex, containing lots of detail and often a variety of characters but I think his prints work best when they are simple, he has the ability take something simple like a line drawing of a house and make it beautiful with considered use of colour.
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