He works with type to create highly detailed, and what can be described as 'wild' illustrations.
Quinn uses the single letter E almost constantly in most of his artwork, he describes it as the surrogate for all letters in the alphabet, it's the most frequently used letter in the English language, has a visual presence that interests him greatly and has become a primary starting point in his works. Quinn compiles hundreds of E's into abstract compositions through various systemic arrangements.
I like how Quinn's illustrations are crammed with detail, and how they are constructed with hundreds of letterforms which arn't supposed to say anything; the E's are used solely as shapes, rather than type/language. I feel that Quinns work is quite personnal to himself, his fascination with the letter E and how he shows it expanding and exploring off the page really inspire me to make my work more personnal to me and to continue to develop my own style.
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