Jonas Ranson is an East London based artist whose work falls into two main categories which encompass the twin strands of both Fine Art Practice and Illustration. Recent activities have included projects as diverse as design collaborations with RELIGION clothing and head of menswear at Versace, designer Martin Bal, fashion illustration for ELLE Magazine, Invited artist at Pick me Up Graphic Arts Fair, Somerset House, Celestial Contrakt group show at Schwartz Gallery London which he co-curated with Greek artist Christina Mitrentse and print projects with Berlin based print Gallery RISE BERLIN.
Jonas’s work is diverse, drawn equally to abstraction, to the world of fashion as well as it is to the ideas and symbolism of the occult and its association with the more disreputable forms of popular entertainment. Prints are achieved through treatment in both digital conversion and photographic silkscreen processes. Both detailed and abstract, the design strategy is one that combines traditional drawing and digital technique. The mirror works represented at GAS describe imagined algorithmic and structural ‘episodes’.