Ed Sheeran + Album Cover Art Print

Limited edition exclusive print, with hand signed certificate from the artist. Highest quality Giclée print on Premium Gloss coated art paper 300gsm ' for the richest colours and sharpest image quality. In this iconic portrait. Ed Sheeran sat for Phillip over two months. The artist has been friends with Ed Sheeran since childhood and watched him gig around venues since his college days. Phillip told me how he wanted to show the singer finally emerging coming out of the darkness of the clubs and venues that the singer would go to and perform on his steady rise. We are immediately confronted with the singer's face in this hauntingly beautiful, coming of age portrait. I find it rather interesting how the artist has made no reference to the singer's background who's known for also carrying and playing guitar. Rather Phillip has introduced a stillness and silence amongst the chaos of the music industry on a whole. I like how the artist has skilfully captured the unassuming shy grin, the suggestion of the unknown and the unsure, almost uncomfortable young adult looking back at us. This as Phillip explained to me is how he sees the singer who seems quite shy an at times uncomfortable in coping with his newfound success and being in the public eye. Ed Sheeran seems to be momentarily glancing at us but sharing his experience with us at the same time. About the Artist: A series of high-quality prints of the musical phenomenon that took the world by storm. This collection includes artwork used on his early album sleeves along with rare developmental artwork that has neverbeen publicly released by Phillip Butah. In 1998, when he was 16, Phillip Butah was the youngest prizewinner in the competition Young Artists' Britain: The Prince of Wales's Young Artists' Award. This encouraged him to take up art seriously, and he went on to study Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Phillip Butah is an outstanding draughtsman whose skills are particularly suited to portraiture. Apart from the accuracy and detail of visual appearance, Phillip's drawings also capture the character and personality of the person in front of him.