Big Mother 2

Antwerp based artist Sam Vanallemeersch, born in 1978, has been taking the illustration scene by storm since he appeared in Thames and Hudson’s 2007 Street Sketchbook, garnering commissions from the likes of Monocle Magazine, The City of Antwerp, Orange, KLM and TBWA/OMD amongst many others. His success as a commercial illustrator has been matched by his popularity as an underground artist with his enigmatic sketchbooks receiving widespread acclaim in the wider design community. Taking not one, but two monikers, Sam’s mind-boggling ability to switch seamlessly from restricted, albeit beautiful, ligne-clair illustration under the guises of his Kolchoz persona, to his noisy, erratic, impressionistic compositions as his mad alter-ego Sovchoz, results in a body of work to leave you utterly breathless and in awe.