Graham Illingworth's Biography
| A selection of Graham Illingworth's work | ||
 Feather Coursage II |
 Before the Cock Crows |
 Act of Benevolence (Panel 2) |
An intensely private person, Graham Illingworth keeps his past life at arms length, preferring to express his feelings and attitudes in evocative and sensitive paintings
Whilst marvelling at the fine line and detail, sensuous colouring and moulding of shape, the underlying emotion and thought transcends the more obvious influences of artists of the calibre of Beardsley, Rackham and Erte.
It could be assumed that the prime image models were Far Eastern, but look deeper and Persian nuances appear with echoes of other bygone cultures, Maya and Incan. As some of his titles suggest, there are zodiacal influences, this combined with martial undertones suggesting the conflict of good and evil and the struggle of the weak with the seeming strong.
There has been an immense demand for his work following one-man shows in both Birmingham and the subsequent publishing of many superb serigraphs
