Ben Javens is another artist whose work I enjoy. He is an illustrator/print maker from the United Kingdom.

I love the sim­plic­ity of his images. Through his process, you can see how con­sid­ered every part of his work is. I think it’s the qual­ity I appre­ci­ate the most — the par­ing down of super­flu­ous details to really get to the essence of the sub­ject. The shapes are clean yet jux­ta­posed by the imper­fec­tions of his screen print­ing process.

It’s all got this nice vin­tage feel to it — I’m reminded of illus­tra­tors from the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s such as Mary Blair, JP Miller and Alice and Mar­tin Provensen. Look­ing at this work just makes me want to lis­ten to jazz records.

All images via his blog and the Unseen Agency.