L. j. Patton Illustration
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Illustrator, Author, Entrepreneur, Designer, Geek

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I am an illustrator and the Co-Owner of ZaPow! The Southeast's only art gallery focusing on illustration and pop culture art.

ATTENTION Art Directors and Editors!
I am available for illustration commissions. 

Please drop me a line if you have a project that you would like me to illustrate. 

I have two main styles. They are:
Labors of Love: Highly rendered illustrations with an eye to a painterly aesthetic. These take me about two weeks per illustration.

Pop Fun: These take me between 45 minutes to 2 hours and are an irreverent homage to pop artists and cartoons and usually have a snarky quip that goes a long with them. Amusingly enough these are the paintings & prints that usually sell the fastest.


I have received the following Honors:
  • North Carolina Regional Artist Grant
  • Highlights Foundation Grant
  • Western North Carolina Business Woman of the Year Nominee
Our Gallery ZaPow! has won the following awards: 
  • Business of the Month by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce.
  • Second Best Gallery in The Mountain Express Best of Asheville Competition
For my most up to date work don't forget to check my Artist page on Faebook!  I would love to be able to simply post on my website and then have all my posts push to my twitter and Facebook pages. 

But oh no, Facebook won't always show posts from third parties in my followers news streams. They have to have all the low down first! PTttthhhb.. Stupid Facebook... You win. I will post things directly to you as well as via my website blog portal. https://www.facebook.com/LjPattonArt

My Education: I received my BFA in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and my MFA with a focus on writing and illustrating picturebooks from Goddard College. During my studies I completed honors programs at Parsons Paris, and The University of Canterbury in Christ Church, New Zealand. 

My illustrations have appeared in the following publications:  Asheville Citizen Times , Carolina Arts, Charlotte Observer , Haywood County News, Laurel of Asheville, LiveValuation Magazine, Mountain Express, Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Magazine, SCBWI Carolina's - Pen & Pallette, WRE Magazine (C)  2007 - 2010   Copyright Lauren j.Patton

Copyright LjPatton.com,  Lauren Patton 2008 - 2012

Feel free to share my stuff but please don't steal it.