Ed Fairburn is a modern Welsh freelance artist who mainly focuses on portraits and uses a range of mediums, he often draws on maps and has created some stunning and interesting portraits using the shapes found in maps. To create his well known portraits shades blocks of the maps in forming the structure of the face, he cuts out sections revealing over maps underneath in various bold colours.
After seeing Fairburn's work this has really made me would to consider using maps in my work as I find all the different little lines in these portraits fasinating. If I was to aproche this idea of using maps in my work i believe I would prefer to transfer the maps onto woods with emultion print.
