Jonathan Hulten is a Grammy award winning guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and illustrator from Sweden . Tribulation and his own solo work, taking inspiration from his religious upbringing in a church, inspiration in nature (he cites trees, mountains and the sea as influences that call to him), the Art Deco movement, vaudeville, performance art, horror movies, heavy and death metal music and gothic subculture. He designs all of the vinyl artwork, gig posters and printed ephemera for Tribulation and his solo project using ink pen and editing in Photoshop; marrying the digital and the analogue.
He has a multidisciplinary and open practice combining music, illustration and graphic design, costume, makeup and performance. I like that it's such an open discipline where everything translates and centres around his music.
He is heavily informed by metal music and horror movies which makes him relevant to my emerging practice and the direction I would like to go in my professional career.
I particularly like his simple shapes and colour palette, often working with cream, black and red, and very elongated forms reminiscent of Art Deco and all the things that symbolises including elegance, culture, sophistication and youth.
More and more I am becoming inspired and informed by music in my practice and n longer enjoying children's book illustration like I once did. It no longer brings me the comfort that it once did, I find only pain where an old interest lies that reminds me of when I was happy before my trauma. Music is now my comfort blanket.
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