Name: 羅米-布呂梅爾，2024/25 年度會員手冊藝術家 (Meet Romy Blümel, Members' Handbook Artist 2024/25)
Uploaded: 2025-10-15T18:04:45.000Z
Duration: 6 min 20 s

And so this is the COVID for the latest cover for the English Heritage Handbook.

所以這就是最新一期 English Heritage Handbook 的封面 COVID。

I wanted to create an image that has perspective in it, as if you would walk into a landscape where a lot of cast are in the same area.

我想創造一個有透視感的圖像，就像你會走進一個有很多演員在同一個區域的風景裡。

I wanted to create a big theme that looks natural and at the same time, surreal.

我想創造一個看起來自然同時又超現實的大主題。

I'm an illustrator, and I'm the artist behind the latest English Heritage Handbook cover.

我是一位插畫家，也是最新一期 English Heritage Handbook 封面的創作者。

I illustrated books for the Folio Society and Big Picture Press.

我為 Folio Society 和 Big Picture Press 繪製過書籍。

I did editorial illustrations for the New Yorker, the Guardian, Harper's Magazine, and

我為 New Yorker、Guardian、Harper's Magazine 繪製過編輯插畫，

portraits for the New York Review of Books.

也為 New York Review of Books 繪製過肖像。

And I did illustrations for a series of china plates and packaging for Fortnum and Masons.

我也為 Fortnum and Masons 的一系列瓷盤和包裝繪製過插畫。

I work in a mixed media technique, so I work mostly analog, but

我採用複合媒材技法，所以大部分是類比創作，

I'm aiming to have an image where everything belongs together or works together very well.

我的目標是創作出一個所有元素都能和諧共存或完美搭配的畫面。

So it doesn't look like a collage, but there's a contrast in it.

這樣看起來不像拼貼，但裡面卻有對比。

Like a contrast painterly approach and also a graphic approach.

像是繪畫式手法和圖像式手法的對比。

And I tried to merge these two ways of illustrating.

I was always very interested in politics and history, and

我一直對政治和歷史非常感興趣，

I love this combination of researching and learning about new things, and

我喜歡這種結合，可以研究和學習新事物，

then also to experiment with painting and drawing and printing and do things with my hand.

然後也喜歡實驗各種繪畫、素描和印刷技巧，用手創作。

So illustration is this perfect profession for all of my interests.

所以插畫對我來說，就是一個結合我所有興趣的完美職業。

I love to draw old buildings with lots of details and landscapes, so it fits my profile perfectly.

我喜歡畫有很多細節的老建築和風景，所以這完全符合我的特質。

我喜歡那些不斷實驗的藝術家。

I also love children's book illustrations.

I have a big collection of children's books at home.

I paint with acrylic colors and brushstrokes to give images a third depth.

我用壓克力顏料和筆觸來作畫，讓畫面有第三個維度的深度。

It creates a kind of aura in the image, like some.

它在畫面中營造出一種氛圍，就像有些。

As if something is hidden or some mystery.

就像有什麼東西藏起來，或是有些神祕感。

I like to set highlights with gold and pink and some yellows.

我喜歡用金色、粉紅色和一些黃色來點綴。

I also like to use colors that are not the real colors of.

我也喜歡用一些不是真實顏色的顏色。

Of the object or building, just to support the surrealness of the composition.

物體或建築的顏色，只是為了烘托構圖的超現實感。

So for the details, the people and the castles have different angles of the castle as photograph in front of me.

所以細節部分，人物和城堡，我會像照片一樣把城堡的不同角度放在我面前。

And then I choose an angle that fits into the perspective that I chose for the illustration, and

然後我會選擇一個適合我為插畫選擇的透視角度，

The main challenge for me was to put everything in balance.

對我來說，最大的挑戰是把所有東西都平衡好。

So this is the latest cover world in English Heritage Book.

所以這就是我最新一本 English Heritage Book 的封面。

The difficult thing was to get all these different elements into one image.

所以要把這些不同的元素放進一張圖裡，這真的很有挑戰。

So for the COVID we focus on the castles and try to show a few of them.

所以這次的 COVID，我們著重在城堡，試著呈現幾個不同的城堡。

There's Dover Castle, Cannonwell Castle, also Warner Castle, which I find very beautiful with its garments.

有杜佛城堡、坎農威爾城堡，還有華納城堡，我發現它的服飾非常漂亮。

There's Carisbrooke Castle with a donkey.

有卡里斯布魯克城堡，裡面還有一頭驢子。

So the black characters, they build a contrast and also tie the whole image together.

所以這些黑色的角色，它們形成對比，也把整張圖連結在一起。

I hope the members will be seduced by the COVID to look inside the handbook and find out about all the beautiful sites and activities they can do.

我希望會員們會因為 COVID 而被吸引，翻閱這本手冊，發現所有美麗的景點和可以做的活動。

And I hope parents and grandparents will bring their grandkids and kids to the sides to learn about history.

我希望爸爸媽媽和爺爺奶奶會帶著孫子孫女們來到這裡，一起認識歷史。