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Flossy & Jim
Dartmouth based multi award winning illustrators aiming to make the world a more exciting, imaginative and fun place to be!
Two quirky Dartmouth illustrators are setting out their plans for world domination! Flossy and Jim, otherwise known as Lynette and James, create fun illustrations for business logos, children’s books, food packaging and family portraits, as well as having their own range of merchandise. Their work has already reached Australia and now they’re on their way to crack America and Europe. Steph Woolvin went to visit them in their town centre studio....
Straight away you can tell this pair are fun. From the moment I walk through the door (and try not to hit my head on the orange and pink pom poms hanging from the ceiling) I notice brightly coloured cartoons around the room, sweets on the shelves and a selection of biscuits laid out on the desk in front of me. Their mission in life is to ‘have fun and make the world a sunnier, funnier and more imaginative place to be’. “Life can be hard enough as it is,” says James with a mock serious look. “There’s always depressing news on the TV and let’s face it we don’t get a huge amount of sun in Britain, so we just try and tip the balance - bring everyone their Vitamin D through colour!” The pair’s bright outlook on
life developed after they each experienced a difficult few years before they met. Ex lorry driver James went through a divorce, then his dad died so he moved from Bristol to Paignton to help his mum. Lynette, who had two small children at the time, suffered a divorce, bankruptcy and lost her Swindon house in the process:
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“There was £5 in my purse and that was all the money I had in the world so I decided to pack up and move to Devon. I’ve always loved it here and when my children visited Brixham they said it looked like the children’s programme Balamory. So I thought that’s the place for us.” Lynette signed up for an illustration course at South Devon College where she came across James who had also decided on a fresh start and was doing an interior design course. Their eyes met over a mass of books, paints and canvasses: “We had adjoining classrooms and when the doors were open I used to look in and try and get Lynette’s attention. We started talking one day and that was it,” says James. When they graduated Lynette decided to set up an illustration business and called it ‘Flossy Illustration’ – Flossy was her grandma’s name and it also worked because Lynette’s hair was bright pink at the time and everyone said it looked like candy floss. “Actually it was my granddad who gave me the creative bug. He used to be a cartoonist for
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