Whilst the mainstay of the Illustration side of the business is illustrating for two of the countries leading fishing magazines, Improve Your Coarse Fishing and Sea Angler, my work is now used by tackle manufacturers, publishers and businesses needing illustrations for POS packaging, brochures and adverts. It has been similar to the graphic design and web design parts of the business generating Illustration work, Illustration does the same and provide access to a full range of services from one supplier. You may see that many of the examples here appear in other portfolio pages.
Enterprise Tackle
Enterprise Tackle commissioned Hooklinks to provide some new artwork for updates to some...
The Phoenix Consultancy
The Phoenix Consultancy came to Hooklinks from a personal reference from another customer...
Thurne Fisheries
The Thurnefisheries website is one of the subjects I contribute to and set up a back in...
Bauer – Sea Angler magazine
The UK’s top sea angling magazine, SEA ANGLER catering for the widest spectrum of...
Bury Hill Fishery
Commissioned zander/predator rig illustrations (4) for the predator section of the...
My Name is David Batten, I have been working as an illustrator since 1985, working freelance for various individuals and publishers (Crowood, EMAP ) producing angling book and magazine illustrations. In 2000 I had a chance to go full time and set up Hooklinks to manage my work life after 30 years in engineering.
In 2001 it became evident that there was a wider market for my skills when asked to do some packaging work for 2 tackle and bait manufacturers, Korda and Innovatebaits. The latter was to see my skills pushed into web design and development.
Today all of these skills are used to provide support for a wide range of angling, fisheries and related businesses. On the journey I have taken on insurance, mortgage and NLP businesses as clients, all of whom continue to use my services today,
My angling illustration has come a long way from those humble days in the mid 80's as you will see in the various pages of my website.
David Batten 