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Foundation Degree student forges career in the local community

Illustrator Colette Rayment plans to expand her customer base in North Devon

A Foundation Degree student at Petroc is taking big steps into the illustration industry, after working on a hard-hitting campaign for Barnstaple Police.

At the beginning of 2011 Colette Rayment created a series of anti youth crime posters, as part of her illustration degree programme, based on the brief of nursery rhymes. She took her posters to the local police force, who expressed an interest in using them for future campaigns.

Following on from this, Colette was then commissioned to produce two images to be used over the festive period to promote the Police’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to alcohol-related anti-social behaviour.

Colette was asked to design two separate posters, one featuring a male and one a female, to be displayed on Stagecoach buses in North Devon. Using her usual techniques of layering a combination of scanned images, photographs and text, Colette completed the brief. Her artwork can still be seen on buses in the area.

Speaking about seeing her work in unexpected places, Colette said: “It’s funny seeing my work on the buses. I keep trying to get a picture on my phone but they’re always gone too quickly.”

Colette, who will complete her Foundation Degree in Illustration this July, found out about the course after starting an illustration evening class “just for fun.”

She said: “Illustration started off as a hobby and now it could become a career.”

Colette, a full time mother, will not be going to Plymouth to gain an honours degree. Instead, Colette is working hard to expand her customer base via her website to work as a freelance illustrator in North Devon.

Kim Jones, who teaches the Illustration course, said: “Colette has proved you can go out and get work published.”

She went on to talk about the merits of studying illustration in North Devon. “Creative industries are often viewed as something you do in your leisure time. However, illustration has a real value as it has context of use.”

For more information about Foundation Degrees at Petroc, please contact the HE team on 01271 852365 or email he@petroc.ac.uk