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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

I went to David Hockney's Bigger & Closer exhibition in the summer and hatched a grand plan to go to more art exhibitions! It was so good!

36 Days of Type is a project that invites designers, illustrators and visual artists to express their unique interpretation of the letters and numbers of the alphabet. The challenge (an annual event, normally in the spring) is to create letterforms, designing a letter or number each day for 36 conse…

Everyone seems to be looking back at the last decade, so thought I'd join in! 2016 - I did my last trade show, and started to move away from selling to shops, and developing instead into personalised illustration selling direct to customers. I created the illustrations for a children's book called D…

I joined in with the folktale week challenge for the first time - it's an annual, week-long art challenge held in mid-November. The idea is to write your own story based on their prompts of NIGHT, ECHO, RAIN, BOOK, CHARM, STORM and DAWN. I started with a raven character I'd already created, and his…

I created some bepoke tins for JS Gymnastics - to keep chalk and tape inside...

Happy 2026! It was a busy run up to Christmas and I've enjoyed a good rest - these are some of the orders I enjoyed packing up = anything sweet related really! :: https://shop.alicepalace.co.uk/products/personalised-sweet-tin

It's almost Christmas! If you'd like to order, my last day to post out in time for Christmas is tomorrow (the 19th December).