Rohan Eason

Originally from Middlesborough, Rohan Eason is a pen and ink illustrator who uses the simplicity of black and white imagery to allow the ideas behind each picture to step to the fore. His work has become widely used in book illustration – for children and adults. Rohan grew up surrounded by creatives – his father is a ceramicist, his sister a printmaker, his mother multi-disciplinary artist and his uncle was a painter. Although there were always art materials around when he was a child, and he felt his destiny was to be an artist, eventually he rebelled and joined a band. One day, he was struck by some Aubrey Beardsley prints in his grandmother’s house and decided to write his dissertation on the artist. Today, Rohan has a portfolio full of similar work covering everything from fabric prints to children’s books. His dream is to one day buy an old train carriage and turn it into a bar.