John Cockshaw
Artist and illustrator. Joined LPP in 2016.
John is a North Yorkshire-based artist and alumni of Sheffield Hallam University (BA Hons Fine Art and Mres in Art and Design 2002, 2003).
His principal interests as an artist are sequential photography and graphic art, landscape painting and work with a fantasy/sci-fi flavour. His Tolkien-inspired art has been exhibited at events in Oxford organised by The Tolkien Society, Sarehole Mill in Birmingham, with the Sociedad Tolkien Española in Seville, HobbitCon in Germany and more recently at NazgulCon in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
In December 2014, John curated an exhibition of international Tolkien-inspired artists at Curzon Ripon Arts/Cinema venue in North Yorkshire. Also a video artist, filmmaker and writer keen on developing his curatorial skills, John is most satisfied with multiple projects to work on.
You can follow John on Twitter, on Facebook and on his Official website.
Shortlisted for the BFS Awards 2018 for "The Prisoner" in the Best Comic/Graphic Novel category.