Katherine Baxter Maps

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The artist Katherine Baxter, who specialises in hand-drawn isometric generalised maps, particular of cities, has a solo exhibition “Mapmaker”, at the Coninsgby Gallery in Tottenham Street, Fitzrovia. The gallery is open from 9-6pm from Monday to Friday, and the exhibition is showing until 25 July.

We’ve featured one of Katherine’s maps before – this map of the London 2012 Olympic venues which was a commission for LondonTown.

Katherine’s illustration style is not just limited to maps – in fact her first commision was for a children’s book – but the geometric style lends itself well to creating information-rich graphics such as maps.

See also this impressive video of the creation of a map of the procession for the Royal Wedding of 2011 (the finished work is below), it is three days of hand-drawing a map condensed to just three minutes. It makes you realise just how many strokes of the artist’s pen are needed to create an artwork/map of this detail and intricacy:

Her full portfolio is on her website.

More details about the solo exhibition.

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Thank you to Katherine for the invitation to her exhibition launch. The images here are from her website portfolio.

2 comments

  1. I would like to draw over your San Diego map, as I am writing a children’s book and need to show prominent Dog Beach locations in relationship to Scripps Memorial Hospital, where I volunteer as a Pet therapy Team with my poodle, Prince.
    Would that e ok? I just need the three D layout and to tract the Hotel Del. Let me know.
    Thank you.

    Fay L. Sueltz 1 858 405 3934

    1. Fay, I would recommend contacting Katherine Baxter directly, as I doubt she looks regularly at this comments section here.

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