Eoin Ryan depicts wedding styles for Wallpaper*

13.08.2011
Dublin-born illustrator recently created a striking set of illustrations for an article in Wallpaper* about Indian weddings. The piece detailed how traditional ostentatious weddings are falling out of favour, with couples preferring smaller, simpler and stylish ceremonies, and Eoin was asked to represent the contrast between the two approaches to matrimonial celebrations.

We caught up with Eoin to find out how he created a striking mix of contrasting colours and texture.

DA: How did you come to work for Wallpaper*?

ER: "I sent them my work after graduating and they liked it and gave me my first big commission a couple of years ago, I've done a few jobs for them since then, this was the most recent."

DA: What was your concept and how did you develop this?

ER: "I started looking through lots of Indian wedding images and I noticed the henna tattoos on the bride's hands. They had quite beautiful patterns so I thought i could use these somehow. [For one illustration (bottom),] that developed into using the hands themselves and I ended up showing a blingy, dolled-up hand with a huge ring contrasted with a simpler, unadorned one and a smaller ring. I used the same idea for the [illustration of] two bride's heads (below) and incorporated some of the henna patterns in the background."