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Gifts to help an incredibly green thumb... after all it is National Gardening Week! This year's theme (for the UK's largest celebration of gardening, organised by the RHS) is 'getting curious' - encouraging everyone to slow down, explore, and discover the small wonders of nature in gardens, on balco…

I loved a workshop I did recently, run by Sarah Watts on turning art into repeats (she's an absolute wizz at Photoshop and is v good at teaching her skills). It's so fun making repeat patterns!

I went along to the London Book Fair last month to see the three children's books that I've been illustrating. This collection of picture books reimagines classic Chinese fables to share the values and resilience of the Chinese spirit with children globally.

We joined in with The Big Plastic Count this year and it was a really good way to actually see how much plastic we use over a week. We got a 'plastic footprint' after submitting our results; In one week we used 101 bits of plastic.Over a year that's equivalent to 5,252 pieces of plastic.If all house…

I drew most of the buildings on Broadway High Street for an illustrated map - almost 100 illustrations were supplied in black and white to Cotswold Web Design Agency, Riley and Thomas, and they have created the finished a2 sized map which was coloured up with a key. This is the folded handout versio…

I've been creating personalised cards and gifts for many years now, and some designs are just instant favourites - like this 'more than' bag. I really love it!

The 100 day project is such a great way to build creative practice inside real lives with busy schedules! Doing it, makes you, make art everyday! Even though ideally I would just naturally make art everyday (because I do love doing it), it doesn't tend to happen unless I have a reason and for me th…

On radio 2 a few weeks ago, they were talking about following your talents not your dreams, highlighted by actress and producer Reese Witherspoon in February 2026. She argues that chasing talents is more effective than chasing dreams, noting that while "everyone has dreams," they do not guarantee su…

This year's event had the theme of resilience, and it was a brilliant day, as always, for small business owners.

I loved taking part in this book cover challenge (you can take part annually in early December) - the first book title to illustrate was 'Daisy Sweetapple Lives Next Door' (I accidentally put lived instead of lives!) I'm always super busy with orders in December, so I had to be very quick with these…

Good things are comingInto this year of the horseKeep moving forward