Hello! My name is Matt Lyon and C86 showcases my work as a UK-based graphic artist. My inspirations are varied, ranging from folk art, fine art and illustration. Current work explores line, colour, pattern and shape... often using reoccurring motifs, themes and anything else I can think of...

Other places to find me:

Flickr
Twitter
Google+
Facebook
Society6
Tumblr
Blog

Lovely people that promote my work:

Jelly London
You Work For Them
New Standard

Folks that I've worked for:

Microsoft, AOL, AT&T, Nike, Red Bull, Urban Outfitters, Wired, Design By Humans, Threadless, Tokyo Dawn Records, etc

Publications I've appeared in:

Vectorism
Juxtapoz magazine
Zupi magazine
The Soul Pancake Book
Torso: T-Shirt Graphics Exposed
Playful Type 2: Ephemeral Lettering & Illustrative Fonts
IdN Extra 03: S6 The New Twenties
IdN magazine
Book of Creation
ReadyMade magazine
Digital Artist magazine
Digital Arts magazine
Fashion Wonderland
Custom Kicks
A5: The Magazine
Black & White Freedrawings
Belio magazine
Test Everything
The Wizard's Hat
Shooting Rosin
+ others [mainly self-published projects]

Exhibitions I've appeared in:

What If... - River North Park | Chicago, USA
NATION World Graphic Tour | European Session - Officine Farneto | Rome, Italy
Nothing Like Something Happens Anywhere - RUM 26 | Göteborg, Sweden
Belio & The Effect 2000 Generation - Apetit Gallery | Bilbao, Spain
Red Bull Freedrawing - Earls Court | London, UK
The Carnaby Project - Studio 33 | London, UK
All I Want For Xmas - Bodhi Gallery | London, UK
We Have Been Expecting You - Concrete Hermit Gallery | London, UK
NATION World Graphic Tour - Rome, Italy
Everybody Sqwerts - Secret Headquarters | Denton, USA
Plátano Rock Taper Matter - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Eat Your Hat Out - Mao Livehouse | Beijing, China
Three For Free - Cape Town, SA | London, UK
Den Of Iniquity - Rogues' Gallery | Belfast, UK

Things that feed my work:

Outsider Art
David Lynch
The Smiths
Peanut butter
Japanese wonder
Electronica
Late nights
John Waters
TV-games
Ulysses 31



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