Illustrator Jasmine Thompson visits Year 6

Our Year 6 pupils were visited today by illustrator Jasmine Thompson.

Jasmine is a Bristol based illustrator, mural artist and designer. Her practise embodies using traditional art methods (illustration) that tells stories of people and places.

Amongst her recent work are murals for The Royal Shakespeare Company and Pervasive Media Studio. She works regularly as a live sketch artist and visual journalist, and represents corporate organisations live sketching conferences, and designing Infographics for reports and books. She is an experienced political cartoonist for magazines.

Jasmine worked with the Year 6 pupils to produce a comic book style illustration. The pupils used prompt cards to create inspiration for their stories illustrating them in a variety of media.