Jen Franklin’s anthropomorphic drawings are reminiscent of Victorian portraiture and are inspired by her long standing fascination with animals and their representation through history as a source of amusement, investigation and debate.
Jen, also known as Wei Tzu, has an English-Chinese background and spent her childhood on a farm in Cornwall. She studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and Camberwell College of Arts in London, and then worked internationally as a graphic artist and trend consultant for textiles and product design before starting to sell her work directly to clients.
She co-founded the former shop Franklin Alvarez on Columbia Road in London shortly after the new millennium, where she sold her drawings framed in a selection of antique picture frames she had accumulated in the nineties along with old photographs; paper; unusual printed ephemera; animal related articles; found lettering; typography and other less definable curios, often emerging as museum-like presentations with a slightly, humourous, irreverent feel.
In 2009 following the success of the sales of her work she closed the shop to focus solely on drawing and teaching. Jen also has a PGDip in Professional Writing from Falmouth College of Art and a PGCE in Art and Design from the Institute of Education and has worked as an art and design lecturer for the past six years.
- Pencil drawing reproduced as giclee print on archival quality 100% cotton paper.
- Limited edition of 50
- 297 x 420mm
- Unframed