BA (Hons) Graphic Design
Carve out your career in design across print and digital platforms. Solent gives you freedom to explore your craft in dedicated design studios.
View courseDr Lorna Sheppard
MA, PGCE, SFHEA
Course Leader
School of Creative Industries
Biography
Lorna is a course leader in visual communication with responsibility for the illustration programme. She is also a Level 6 tutor on the BA (Hons) Illustration programme. Lorna teaches Level 5 and Level 6 modules on the illustration and graphic design programmes.
- BA (Hons) Illustration UWE 1997
- MA Printmaking UWE 2008
- PGCE University of Plymouth 2012
- PhD University of Portsmouth 2023
- Fellowship of the Higher Education Authority (Advance HE) 2019
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts 2020
- Professional Development Course for External Examiners (Advance HE) 2023
- Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Authority (Advance HE) 2024
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Further information
Having achieved a First Class Honours Degree in Illustration at the University of the West of England in 1997, from the start, this achievement has set the standard to which Lorna works toward. She has over 26 years’ experience as an illustrator with clients as diverse as BBC Magazines, to Jung Giftware in Germany, to Woodmansterne and Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. In that time Lorna’s work has featured in the AOI Images annual and in publications on contemporary illustration. The diversity of these projects has allowed Lorna to explore the numerous platforms that illustration inhabits from commissions for use in the public realm to surface pattern design. Her knowledge is constantly developing, keeping up with the innovations taking place in the creative world today.
Her illustrative practice has been further enhanced with the achievement of distinction at master's level in multi-disciplinary printmaking in 2008. During this time, she specialised in screen-printing techniques and the use of ceramics as a canvas. Lorna was a selected runner-up in a national competition organized by British Ceramic Tiles to develop designs for bathrooms. Thus, her practice began to diversify toward surface pattern and interior textiles, establishing a further new visual language.
Lorna’s later projects have shown how she has continued to actively enhance her practice by developing solutions from often challenging commissions. Drawn from both independent and collaborative methods of practice, this level of engagement exemplifies her commitment to achieving professional outcomes that are both meaningful and expedient.
Since 1997 Lorna has been a member of the Association of Illustrators.
Taught courses
BA (Hons) Illustration
Turn the art of your imagination into crafted illustrations while developing a comprehensive drawing-based skill set, and building your portfolio to succeed in a competitive environment.
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MA Visual Communication
Do you have an eye for design? Would you like to help influence the future of visual communications? Our MA Visual Communication degree is ideal for creatives keen to refine their practice, working as part of an interdisciplinary group of students.
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