Lilias Buchanan was born in 1989 in Dundee, Scotland. She graduated from Central Saint Martin’s College with a 1st class BA (Hons) in Illustration and went on to complete a further Diploma at The Royal Drawing School, where she won the Patron’s Prize. Lilias is currently based in London.
Lilias’s drawings are often so captivating that they seem to burst forth from the page into the real world. Her expertise ranges from portraiture to life drawing, illustration and stereoscopic drawing.
Lilias has undertaken a variety of projects, from illustrating ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ by Tolstoy (NOTOS press, 2014) to a drawing performance in association with media agency MEC and ELX Art in 2016.
She is currently exhibiting a solo show of her paintings and drawings inspired by Richard Brautigan’s 1975 novel, ‘Sombrero Fallout’, at Shapero Modern, London.
