Mark Bannerman

Mark Bannerman is an award winning 3D visual artist who lives in Scotland. His portfolio shows 3D rendered drawings with a humanistic feel. His images appear to be dreamlike and quirky. They tend to have the same aesthetic feel as the children's book, Where the Wild Things Are. Mark Bannerman has claimed to be a perfectionist, which can be seen by the technical confidence, inspirational subtlety, and stunning concept in his works. 

The meanings that can be derived from Bannerman's work is that of fantasy and imagination. For example, his above work, Flying Fish, takes the name of the animal, the flying fish, and transplants it literally to a fish flying a plane. It also tends to oscillate from a three dimensional image popping out at you to an image that sinks back into the page. The fish and plane are quite realistically drawn as if they are flying out of the page towards the viewer, and the waves of the ocean are in the same style as Eric Carle, made up of layers and layers of paper overlapped to give a sense of depth. 

  Some critiques of Bannerman's work would be that the colors of the sky and land tend to be composed of the same image and blend together in some images. This could be part of what Bannerman is going for in his images, but it tends to detract from my interpretation of each image. His use of a crisp foreground and a blurred background help to create the surrealistic effect, giving the image the fantasy land feel.