Jim Pilston Exhibition

Jim Pilston’s eye-catching sculptures draw on our legends and the various figures & faces that populate our tales and imaginations; both conscious and unconscious, popular and forgotten.

After studying Theatre Design and Illustration, Jim worked as an Illustrator for many years. Over time his illustrative work began to morph into three-dimensional pieces. Using mostly found and recycled resources, the works are mixed media and papier-mache. They are bold, colourful and playful, full of intrigue, humour and mystery. Jim aims to create something magical from a variety of materials that may be discovered in skips and bins up and down the country.

His work is powerfully influenced by the stories, pictures, films and children’s television of his Cotswold childhood in the 1970s.