Testimonials

Paul Vallone, Managing Director, Berkeley Homes (Central London) Ltd:

John has completed a large number of high quality illustrations for us. He has always responded quickly and kept to tight deadlines. He is able to contribute creatively to the briefing process and then to work with minimal design input from his client. His illustrations represent great value for us, in giving us the edge over the competition when presenting schemes to interested third parties, and winning land bids.

Chris Wieszczycki, Principal Director, tp bennett:

We have been working with John for a number of years and his talent and skill have been instrumental in securing comissions for us.
His beautiful watercolours speak for themselves. His soft, flattering style makes buildings look appealing and attractive.
John is able to work with a very sketchy brief and he is extremely good at filling gaps in design using creatively his intuition and his architectural background. John is a man of his word, he always delivers and has never let us down.

Harrods:

John Walsom has completed several stunning illustrations for Harrods in recent months. Each piece has been created to an exceptionally high standard and we have been thoroughly delighted with the efficiency and professionalism John has shown throughout the project. These illustrations are to be used for our Heritage Food Range packaging and will provide an elegant and unique style to the products.

Allan Lockhart, Director, Stockland Halladale Developments:

We were delighted with the watercolour illustrations produced by John
Walsom. We used John's drawings in the planning process on a number of
our development projects and they made a real difference in
demonstrating our proposals. We have also used the drawings as part of
our marketing material to attract retailers to our developments.  

Steve Maguire, Head of Project Delivery, Royal Bank of Scotland:

John Walsom has produced a great many illustrations to a consistently high standard for us over the past five years, which have helped us enormously in securing Planning Approvals and Executive sign-off for our designs.  He has a very professional approach to his work, and has always met his deadlines.  We would be very happy to recommend him.

Norman Bragg, Principal Director, RHWL Architects:

John is a great mixer of paint and professionalism.

Simon Russian, Head of Retail Development, Legal & General Property:

We have always been delighted with the quality of the images that you have produced and would be happy to recommend your services to prospective new clients.

Brian Lightbody, Director, Michael Laird Architects:

John has produced several high quality perspectives for us over the past few years.  He has always been extremely professional, has met some very tight deadlines, and has helped us significantly in obtaining clients' approval to our designs.  We would certainly recommend him.

Katy Burton, The Wine Society:

It was a pleasure to work with John. He contributed to the briefing process, responded quickly, kept to deadlines and produced two wonderful watercolour paintings of winery buildings which were used on the cover of our quarterly Wine List.

Mark Dillon, Partner, Sheppard Robson:

John Walsom has consistently enabled Sheppard Robson to portray our designs to Clients over a number of years. In addition his keeness to respond to tight time frames has been very beneficial to various projects.

Oliver Stirling, Director, Andrew Winch Designs:

John's beautiful renderings perfectly capture the emotion and atmosphere of our interiors. His calm approach and thorough process result in totally accurate interpretations of our brief. We enjoy his reliable and friendly way of working and above all his willingness to accommodate the last minute tweaks that always creep in.

Neil Morris, Director, tp bennett:

I have known John for many years and have enjoyed having him on our team. Winning work through his superlative artistic illustrations which have set such a high standard to our work which our clients and team colleagues all appreciate. Having John's artwork on our schemes sets the seal on having the best opportunity to win in a competitive pitch situation.I would recommend him to anyone looking for quality visualisations.

Bruce McArthur - Crest Nicholson Developments:

One of John's many skills is taking very preliminary architectural information and presenting it in a way that makes it attractive, appropriate and believable. His work at Aylesbury Waterside for Crest Nicholson was fantastic and delivered significant praise from both Borough Councillors and members of the public. Well done.

Chris Beckles, Art Director, J Walter Thompson:

Hi John,
Just got your illustration and I have to say it's excellent. Exactly as I envisaged it and then some.
Thank you for all your hard work and I really am hoping we can sway the client our way on this. It looks lovely.

Lesley Patrick, Commercial Director, Opera North:

Hello John
This is just a quick note to say that the new drawing of the Assembly Rooms looks absolutely great - a beautiful piece of work.
We have used it in a new piece of print and it has generated some very positive comments - so many thanks for doing it so quickly, it was just what we wanted.