Coffee Break

Name: Coffee Break
Brand: Joanna Layla
SKU: JOL006
Price: 300.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Availability: 1 in stock

£300

“Getting a coffee in the morning is a moment to pause, reflect and watch the world go by. I loved the idea of using coffee as a medium to capture a moment in time, to create a fashion illustration. Both coffee and fashion capture the cultural zeitgeist, an idea I wanted to bring together in a series of fashion works on paper in coffee. Both The Gentlemen Baristas and Bleur combine the traditional with the contemporary to create something unique, elegant and relevant. Coffee Break is my take on the tailoring tradition of the area, an elegant figure getting a well-mannered coffee in contemporary Piccadilly.”

This artwork was uniquely created for our collaboration with The Gentlemen Baristas and exclusively sold on BLEUR.

This piece sold framed float-mounted in a white washed wooden frame.

DIMENSIONS | 29.7 x 42 cm

MEDIUM | Artist-made coffee ink and Chinese ink on Cotton Rag paper

AUTHENTICITY | Signed certificate of authenticity

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ARTIST BIO
JOANNA LAYLA

Joanna Layla is an artist-illustrator whose unique style inspired by the worlds of fashion, literature and art has won her recognition in the creative industries. Recognised as 'One to Watch in 2021' by FIDA, she is regularly commissioned by well-known brands and institutions and has been mentioned in The Guardian for her ‘elegant graphics’.

Through her fluid lines and minimalist design, Joanna Layla’s practice explores themes of identity and self-expression through the human body as an extension of the self. Her drive to visually document beauty in the human form pushes her drawings to redefine gender through the boldness of her feminine brushstrokes, blurring the lines between accepted masculine and feminine forms.

“My drive to draw is to try to capture some beauty I see. I find beauty in the most unexpected places. I love looking at people on the train or on the crowded streets. This urgency to document something beautiful is fundamental to why I want to express myself visually.”

Through the process of emotional creation, Joanna Layla brings to life a true expression of the elusive and unconditional love in its primal state. There is an awareness of human vulnerability apparent in her work where the figurative meets the abstract to express an idea. Light, space and the horizon come together in Joanna Layla’s drawings to encapsulate a sense of freedom that guides her subconscious explorations of what it means to be human.

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Awards | 'One to Watch', FIDA, 2021; Selected for PICTORIA: Best Contemporary Illustrators Worldwide, 2019; Shortlisted for the Prize for Illustration (London), 2017; Shortlisted for the FIDA Fashion Illustration Award, SS20 Fashion Face & Fashion Figure, 2020, FIDA 'Ones to Watch, 2021

Featured | Overdue Magazine, Issue 4, 2021; FIDA Magazine, 2021; Risbel Magazine, 2021; Milk X Magazine, 2021; Cicada Wheels, 2019; Konglomerat Berlin, 2018; The Guardian, 2016

Solo Exhibitions | Art+Fashion, High Lille x Acid Gallery (Lille) 2021; Fashion Works on Paper, Jord+Bord Osterlen (Stockholm), 2021; An exhibition of prints, Jord & Borg (Stockholm), 2020

Group Exhibitions | Eros, Acid Gallery (Lille), 2021; The Art of Coffee, The Gentlemen Baristas x Bleur (London), 2021; Ultramarine Instituto Marangoni (Miami), 2021; [INSERT FEELING HERE] (London), 2020; Empower the maker, Cluster (London), 2019; Fashion Illustration, Acid Gallery (Lille), 2020