Jess Ebsworth wants her trippy illustrations to “transport you to somewhere new and exciting”
From posters for a cult ramen supper club to creating “The Garden of Weeden”, the illustrator tells us about her dreamy briefs.
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After graduating from Manchester School of Art in 2015 with a degree in illustration, Jess Ebsworth returned to her home of East London to pursue a career in the medium. She realised early on that she wanted to channel her creativity into something more “commercial-leaning”, rather than just making “arty art”, and she soon began producing posters for club nights run by her friends. “A lot of what I did in the beginning was for mates or from meeting people working in hospitality – which I have done plenty of living in London,” she tells us. This was the case with Supa Ya Ramen, a now legendary ramen supper club that began life as a pop-up in founder Luke Findlay’s Hackney home.