Simon Davis Shows Off His Painting Sketches For Ben Wheatley’s Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

Bringing A Film Poster To Life

♦ New Ben Wheatley film Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is being shown at the BFI London Film Festival next month and comic artist and illustrator Simon Davis has created art for its poster. So here’s a few of Davis’s sketches and the finished posters taken from Davis’s own Facebook page…

Happy New Year, Colin Bumstead Simon Davis www.tripwiremagazine.co.uk

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is a 2018 British film written, edited and directed by Ben Wheatley and starring Neil Maskell, Joe Cole, Charles Dance, Sam Riley and Hayley Squires. It will have its world premiere on 11 October 2018 at the London Film Festival.

Simon Davis is a painter and illustrator whose work has been displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in London where he got second prize in the prestigious BP Portrait Award in 2008. He is also a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He has also worked extensively as a comic artist on strips like Sinister Dexter and Slaine for 2000AD.