Philip Picondo

BA (Hons) Illustration

My practice revolves around narrative exploration, a pursuit of normalcy, strangeness, and understandable forms. I aim to develop a language interrogating the strange and novel, the notion of a “new normal” all through painterly strokes and abstractions – even through representational art. Using a combination of traditional and digital, I can merge the physicality of watercolour and pencil and layer over them using painterly digital techniques. By applying these methods, it becomes possible to apply modern approaches to the facets of traditional painterly paintings.

Above all, I treasure the dynamic energy of an illustrator’s piece. I am investigating ways of communicating in visual mediums, finding narrative devices even in the unconventional, and what relates to an audience. My venture as an illustrator, I feel, is to convey those different viewpoints through visual storytelling and language. Flipping beyond the perspectives of others through not only what we might find in the real world, but through the fictional worlds in the fringes of our imagination.


Mae fy arfer yn cylchdroi o gwmpas ymchwilio i naratif, dilyn normalrwydd, dieithrwch a ffurfiau dealladwy. Rwy’n anelu at ddefnyddio iaith sy’n croesholi’r ddieithr a’r normal, y syniad o “normal newydd” i gyd trwy strociau arluniol a haniaethau – hyd yn oed trwy gelf gynrychioliadol. Gan ddefnyddio cyfuniad o’r traddodiadol a’r digidol, gallaf gyfuno naws ffisegol dyfrlliw a phensil a rhoi haenau drostynt gan ddefnyddio technegau arluniol digidol. Trwy gymhwyso’r dulliau hyn, mae’n mynd yn bosib cymhwyso dulliau modern i nodweddion paentiadau arluniol traddodiadol.

Uwchlaw popeth rwy’n trysori egni deinamig darn y darlunydd. Rwy’n ymchwilio i ddulliau cyfathrebu mewn cyfryngau gweledol, gan ddod o hyd i ddyfeisiau naratif hyd yn oed yn yr anghonfensiynol, a’r hyn sy’n gysylltu â chynulleidfa. Teimlaf mai fy menter fel darlunydd yw cyfleu’r safbwyntiau gwahanol hynny trwy adrodd storïau’n weledol ac iaith. Gan fflipio y tu hwnt i bersbectifau pobl eraill nid yn unig trwy’r hyn y byddwn efallai yn dod o hyd iddo yn y byd go iawn, ond trwy’r bydoedd ffugiol ar gyrion ein dychymyg.

Other Exhibitors:

Megan Vest

Megan Vest

Image and text holds a significant value to my practice as an illustrator. Interpreting pre-existing narrative through my own visual language revives an appreciation for this relationship, as well as reanimating these texts. It is vital that we continue to acknowledge...

Daisy Osborne-Walsh

Daisy Osborne-Walsh

As an artist, I aim to be a positive agent for change and increase awareness on topics I find most important. My work is fuelled by my passion to shed light on social injustices, specifically effecting women. The topic basis of my work is often regarding sexual...

Chris Evans aka Queerbis

Chris Evans aka Queerbis

Queerbis is an Activist Illustrator who wants to change the world, while having some fun doing it. Their new design movement titled ‘Bis Design’ recognises society’s biased construction, and as a result gives the ‘power of bias’ back to anyone who is disadvantaged or...

Kodchamon Jermlae

Kodchamon Jermlae

As an artist, I tend to observe the environment I have been through, a consequence of feelings and opinions. The reality is that nothing and no one is perfect. One of the most common reasons for the creative block is the fear of imperfection. This has always been a...

Rosina Rooke

Rosina Rooke

A Cardiff based artist, originally from the Valleys, who focuses on the embrace of life of animate and inanimate objects and bringing a message to their meanings. Exhibited is Rosina Rooke’s latest project work, the decay of food over time. I specialise in a variety...

Rhiannon Griffiths

Rhiannon Griffiths

The Room of Empowerment is an immersive experience that is a thought-provoking assortment of painted fabrics, patterned wood and other multi-mediums, that removes the need of wordly constraits and thrusts you into the land of the fairytale. This mesmeric storybook...