Borin Van Loon: Who He?/Site News/Links

Borin Van Loon : Who He? / Contact / LINKS

Borin Van Loon has been a freelance illustrator for twenty-six years. He is an author, collagist and surrealist painter and has worked for a wide variety of clients in editorial, publishing and promotion. A selection of work is included on this site encompassing books, comics, model-making and non-commercial/self-promotional paintings and collage. He has created an eclectic collage/cartoon mural on the subject of DNA and genetics for the Health Matters Gallery in London's Science Museum. His main aim in life is to pose questions which disturb and amuse in equal measure.

A major collaborative project with sixteen other artists took place as part of Ip-art 2004: the Ipswich Art Festival. Called /blankpage, it consisted of a book as an art object with pages in widely varying media, all but together by a professional bookbinder. Borin's latest book 'Introducing Hinduism' is published by Icon Books in early 2005. See the 'Introducing series' page for further information and images. The series relaunched in September, 2004 with fresh covers and livery for the first twenty titles, three of them by Borin Van Loon.
Site news: comments have come in regarding over-dominant backgrounds, so many pages are being redeigned. At last! (this is the anorakky bit...): having installed a new eMac computer, we have been learning OSX and piecing together new OSX-compatible software to enable regular updating/uploading of Borin's websites - at last we're there and revisions, new book covers and work will be added soon.

Bart Dickon, The Ideologically-Sound Secret Agent, is reaching the culmination of his adventures in 'The Chap' magazine and Borin is currently working on an Omnibus Edition of the great man's derring-doo. A page will be added to this site soon to celebrate the forthcoming book.
Icon Books publish 'Every Woman's Guide to Love, Marriage and Family Life' featuring Borin's illustrations and editing work: a postmodern little tome using an original 1930s text and contemporary illustrations from various sources, with some manipulation and collage elements. This is the follow-up title to Icon's 2002 best-seller: 'Every Woman's Luck Book'. There is a link to Icon's site below.

The Guestbook Comments section has the archive of visitors' messages.
(We are able to offer many images on this site as limited edition colour prints. Contact us here.)

Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Triclops

Borin's project site involves his interest in the use of historic lettering on walls in his home town of Ipswich. The galleries of images gathered over several years show a bygone era of advertisements, company names, street signs and architectural lettering. The site continues to develop and browsers are asked to contribute information and amendments at: http://www.geocities.com/ipswich_lettering

THE LINKS SECTION

Let us know if you have an appropriate website and would like to link to us...

Freelance Association: an informal, locally-based group of creative professionals of which Borin is the Chair; the creative-freelance site has a great gallery of work (including Borin's) therein plus articles and information.
Icon Books publish the extensive (nearly 100 titles) Introducing series as well as other books on a variety of topics. See our Introducing section.
Tarquin Publications: a Suffolk imprint which has been producing educational, mathematical and model-making books for years. See DNA and Geodesic Domes.
The Chap magazine now regularly features Borin's 'A Severed Head' comix.
David Grinspoon's Funky-science site. Borin has contributed to the book 'Lonely Planets: The natural philosophy of alien life' published October, 2003.
Mary Reufle's poetry books are available from Cornell University and are also on amazon.com. See our Weather book page.
The Whipple Museum Of The History Of Science, Cambridge, U.K. displayed several Van Loon DNA-related works in its 2003 Double Helix exhibition; the accompanying book which also features Borin's work can be found on the linked page.
Barsham/Coypu site: Mike Weaver's site commemorating the East Anglian Fairs in the seventies, dedicated to the memory of Mick Sparksman.

Why not visit my fellow East Anglian artists' sites?-
Maureen Galvani
Annabel Mednick
The masque : Mark Wilkinson

And my kinsman from Holland-
Erik van Loon : seek out the card galleries, some very nice lino/woodcut homages to great works of art (with 'hidden' originals).
John Van Loon - another (transatlantic) kinsman: his genealogical webpages contain much interest.

also ...
Julian Hill : 'post-surRealism fakeTate Gallery'. Several virtual galleries of excellent digital photomontage (some of it moves about!).