Where practice meets reflection – dispatches from the studio

Welcome to The Atelier Journal, a space for stories about making, thinking, and witnessing.

Here, we explore the intersections where fine art meets ecological narrative, where illustration becomes world-building, and where design carries quiet intention. This is where the practices housed under Stephen Francis Atelier™ converge in conversation – not as separate disciplines, but as chapters in an ongoing dialogue about materiality, impermanence, and the ways we translate the world into form.

You’ll find artist profiles that honour the depth behind the work. Press releases that announce new projects, exhibitions, and collaborations. Essays on process, material experimentation, and the small rituals that shape creative practice. Occasional reflections on design philosophy, publishing journeys, and the stories behind picture books that invite wonder.

This journal holds space for the thoughtful and the playful, the fragile and the bold. It’s a place to linger over how paper carries wounds, how colour fades with intention, how narrative architectures are built from repetition and attention.

Whether you’re here for Stephen Russell-Brett’s ecological elegies, Francis Russell-Brett’s illustrated worlds, Bunny & Ivy’s whimsical adventures, or insights from the Design Studio – all voices share the same foundation: a commitment to making work that means something, made with care that shows.

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