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Patrick Campbell-Brookes

"Patrick Campbell-Brookes (PatchyCB) is an illustrator based in the West Midlands, UK, with an open and experimental approach. He is keen to seek out new and challenging opportunities and his work ranges from colourful, playful, graphic styled illustrations & animation, to captivating moody digital paintings, to graphic design and photography work. Patrick mostly uses Photoshop as a way of producing his carefully crafted worlds and characters, but is fluent in Illustrator & InDesign, whilst also taking an interest in animation packages to breathe life into his artworks."

Hi, my name is Patrick Campbell-Brookes, but people call me Patchy. I am an illustrator whose practice spans from editorial to concept art. I love creating colourful and playful editorial illustrations with a graphic edge to them, responding to text and current events. I use character interaction to create images that express the story and message and use it to engage the reader and create intrigue and empathy in a visually interesting way. I test ideas that involve animation for web mediums as I think small movement can tell a viewer so much and am interested in editorial illustration design for contemporary digital outputs. I also utilise my finely honed digital drawing skills to create large, more conceptual digital paintings that focus on conveying mood and emotion with large environments and powerful lighting. These paintings make use of darker and more gritty colours. My goal with these images in the LOST project is to convey the feeling of being Lost whether that’s surface level like literally being lost or more abstract like how the feeling can appear with conditions such as OCD. I draw a lot of inspiration from my research into graphic designers and painters combining the styles and finding new ways of using colour and techniques, as well as drawing lots of inspiration from music. Most of my work revolves around Photoshop whether that’s sketching, painting, or animating with the few exceptions I make use of Illustrator and InDesign as well.

My portfolio

Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography

Aimee Hankey / Amanda Benbow / Anisha Gohil / Bethany Lovekin / Chelsey Lau / Daniel Rawlinson / Deveton Boakye / Drei Rutherford-Harris / Emily-Jo Frank / Emma Clayton / Erin Rae / Fynn Riseborough / Georgia Elizabeth Adamson / Gianni Thomas / Hannah Ahmed / Hannah Elizabeth James / Jatinder Ghataoa / Jeavan Tagger / John William Dunn / Julia Oleksiak / Kieran Chahal / Luke Baker / Kieran Willetts / Martin Stewart / Monique Bansal / Patrick Campbell-Brookes / Sarah Tombs / Shriya Rai / Victoria Davenport

Degree Show 2021

Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography

Class of '21

Wolverhampton School of Art MA Show 2021

MA Show 2021

Friday 17th September – Sunday 3rd October: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1DU
MA Design and Applied Arts / MA Digital And Visual Communications

Friday 1st – Sunday 31st October: The New Art Gallery Walsall, Gallery Sq, Walsall WS2 8LG
MA Fine Art And / MA Art and Design by Research

it is a great pleasure that we are once again partnering with Wolverhampton Art Gallery and the New Art Gallery Walsall in hosting our MA Degree Shows. 

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British Art Show 9

British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton School of Art, George Wallis Building, University of Wolverhampton

22 January - 10 April 2022

We are delighted to announce that the Wolverhampton School of Art has been selected as one of the venues for the prestigious British Art Show 9! In what is a major boost and sign of recognition for arts and culture in Wolverhampton, we are proud to be hosting this prestigious touring exhibition in January 2022.

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FEINART Lecture Series

The FEINART LECTURE SERIES will discuss the role, impact, and theoretical implications of socially engaged art. This series of public talks is organized by the Innovative Training Network FEINART (The Future of European Independent Art Spaces in a Period of Socially Engaged Art) jointly led by the Universities of Wolverhampton (coordinator), Zeppelin University (direction of the training programme) University Iceland, and University of Edinburgh.

FEINART, Research, Wolverhampton School of Art, George Wallis Building, University of Wolverhampton

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860306  

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