Jo-Bill Spirit


In the Spirit of Things by Brian McCaffery


I first heard about Georgina through my grapevine of air- brush contacts, and thought, hey this young lady sounds interesting. So when I saw that she was due to be at the Kustom Kulture Blast Off show in the UK I took the oppor- tunity of contacting her to ask for an interview to which I’m happy to say she agreed. But then I hit a brick wall, normally I would get onto the net and do some research of the artist to formulate my interview but when I went to Georgina’s site to take a look at her work, her info page had every conceiv- able question that I would ask covered. Now I could have just copied it a put my name at the end but in my heart of hearts I just cant do that. So, on a blank piece of paper, I wrote these three words.


JUST WING IT. So, here you have it my winged interview with Georgina of Jo-Bill Spirit .


Well Georgina, firstly let me thank you on behalf of Airbrush Technique for taking the time to talk to me. How did it all start for you?


OK Brian, well it all began for me at a young age I suppose like most of the artists you have interviewed, art was always a big thing with me at school. Actually, I educated myself in how to use an airbrush. I had seen a few airbrush maga- zines while I was at school and I loved the way the images looked, especially the realistic side of things. I knew it was not possible for me to achieve that sort of technique with a paintbrush so I started reading up on airbrushing and basi- cally just practicing. I must say that my early attempts were not very successful. You see my parents had bought me an airbrush but it was the aerosol kind and obviously the loss of pressure occurred very quickly but in my naivety I thought it something to do with me so I put it down for quite a few months. Eventually my parents purchased a small compres- sor for me so I started to play around a bit more and I could see things taking form at last, and that is how it all started.


Did you attend Art School/College?


Yes I did – from college I graduated with a National Diploma in Graphic Design then I started almost immediately as a freelance artist. I then completed a three year Masters De- gree in model making at the Bournemouth Arts Institute, where I came away with a BA with Honors. I did start to work in the model making industry but unfortunately due to health reasons with some of the chemicals, I found I couldn’t tolerate some of the processes so I returned to freelance artwork. It’s a shame as I won awards for one of my models, a 1:7 scale Triumph motorcycle which was voted top model by industry experts at the 2005 New Blades model show in London.


I have seen that you have done some theater work - can you tell us what exactly?


Theater work started like most things start - word of mouth. A friend of a friend had heard that I do airbrush work and ap- proached me about doing some backdrops. Up until then the theater company had been painting the scenery themselves but they were after a real 3D effect so I was commissioned to do some work for them. The first piece that I worked on was the Dickens classic ‘A Christmas Carol’. I must say that it was great fun to do, and when I went to see the play, the 3D effect helped immensely. Needless to say they were very happy with the outcome and I hope to do some more work for them in the future. As we are talking about theater, I would like to mention my workshop which is at the end of the garden at home. What I have done is to convert an old trailer box form an articulated lorry into my ‘wet studio’


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