A Cardiff artist who has gained global success by creating unique portraits out of maps has launched his first ever exhibition in the cityMAR14.

Stafford Lane Artist Ed Fairburn has recently come out with new works that live somewhere between sculptures and drawings. He's still using traditional

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Using a wide variety of canvases including railroad blueprints, star charts, geological and street maps, Welsh artist Ed Fairburn (previously here and here) uses additive and subtractive techniques to create portraits that seem pefectly integrated with the topography of streets, mountains and rivers

Ed Fairburn has recently produced new works that live in a magical place between sculpture and drawings.

Illustrator Ed Fairburn's Maps series turns road and subway maps into interesting canvases for his ink and pencil portraits. The artist utilizes the