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The Good Ship Illustration, The Picture Book Course

I've been wanting to do this course for YEARS - and it was never the right time. But now it is! Hopefully!

  • Personalised illustrated gifts created in the UK

    I love creating new illustrations for the personalised products I sell.

  • CMYK Festival of Print and Illustration

    I had a fun day out with my friend Ellen at CMYK Festival of Print and Illustration - it's held every year at Hereford College of Arts, it's free to attend, really welcoming, very inspiring, lots of great art for sale, wonderful talks, and very delicious food too!

  • Making a bespoke dog treat tin

    I love making dog treat tins and it all started by making them for my friends who have dogs, and for my own dogs...

  • Personalised illustrated gifts

    Here are some recent bespoke orders - Anniversary placemats and coasters, with a fruit and veg theme...

  • The Gardener

    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…

  • Pattern design

    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!

  • London Book Fair

    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.

  • The Big Plastic Count

    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…

  • Broadway map and leaflet illustrations

    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…

  • Personalised gifts perfect for Nana, Nanny, Granny, and Grandma !

    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!

  • Do the 100 day project

    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…