Cabmen's Shelter

This was my Final Major Project for my last year at Hertfordshire University. I had to chose a colour and produce either a book or film from this. I chose the colour green and from there I decided to a project about the bright green Cabmen's shelters of London.

These shelters are lovely old cafes for cabbies. They are dotted all around London. There are only 13 left and have been around for over 140 years. They seem to go unnoticed even though they are bright green and stand out. They are still in full use today and you can buy food and drink from them. Only Cabbies are allowed in the shelters which make these even more interesting.

They are lovely things and I loved producing a book about them. For the illustrations I wanted my images to be lose and expressive. I used a one line drawing then went over the line with inks using a pallet knife and glue stick. I wanted the images to be rough just like the shelters themselves because they are so old and seen so much the age adds to them. The surviving 13 have been through two world wars and decades of changing London. They are part of London Heritage and I would love people to know more about them. Also to look around more notice those little things that usually go unnoticed because you could be missing out on gems like these.