Andrew Foster, artist/ Illustrator from London came to give us a lecture recently. Andrew gave an brilliant talk about his work and also him as a person. Andrew said he stop doing lectures for a while as he found them dull, which was quite humorous. He mentioned the sex pistols being his favourite band and the attitude they had being able to do anything you wanted really inspired him. He stressed strongly throughout the lecture that you have to have fun doing your work, or else what’s the point, which I agreed with. He started his work by simple copying music covers.Then he started to draw random objects but started to take away parts of the objects to see how far he could go before it stops communicating what it is. His example was of a chewing gum rapper. Ian Wright inspired this notion of him drawing something then stripping it down to nothing. Steven said he has to make work to understand the world, if he is not doing some work he finds himself lost. Andy whorhol was another artist who had a impact on him, because of the scale of some of his work. Steven is a religious man, he is very close with family which I could relate to. He was straight to the point throughout his lecture, and extremely honest and upfront, I found his personality to my liking I felt like everything he was saying I agreed with, his morals an so on, I felt like he was someone to look up to. so there was a very personal liking to Andrew for me. To add to this Andrews work was quite weird and strange which also appealed to me, not all of his work, some were quite hard to look at. Again Andrew stressed the fact we work to serious, we need to laugh and have fun which I totally agreed with. He’s interested in people who say what they want to say, he’s interested in students they inspire him. He told an interested story about a big job he was offered by liberty to do their shop windows. Steven mentioned that the shop was located in one of the busiest parts of London so he had to get this work right. He stressed over the work and didn’t really know what to do, But one of his friends told him to go with it and have fun with it, At the end he got an amazing amount of press and more jobs from it, I believe that story had a hidden meaning. But because of the press he got and the jobs he was creating work he was known for, so he was getting a little bored, this is when he went back to his roots and started to do something he enjoyed. He came up with a brief about Britain, he loves Britain. the project was about the good and bad sides of Britain. in some of his work there features a tiger, Steven associates him being this tiger, The tiger representing him as this lazy person. In his later work he started to involve props to communicate his work. Steven also mentioned his crazy fetishes for hair, Lace again quite humorous. I Felt Stevens lecture was utter brilliance, He about his personality which was great and also how that personality links with his work strongly. I feel I know Steven quite well after that lecture. Another great experience, I enjoyed listening to Steven.