I'm an illustrator, fair-weather campervaner, and orange cat specialist (qualification not yet formally recognised), living near Cambridge in the UK.

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I have just finished studying on the part-time Children's Book Illustration MA at the Cambridge School of Art, and I graduated with Merit last summer (2025). Please do also take a look at my talented classmates on our graduate website or on our CSACBI Instagram page. I am extremely proud to have been awarded a scholarship by QEST, which funded my time on the MA. 

 

I'm at my most happy drawing anything for children. I especially love to illustrate for the middle grade age range, both fiction and nonfiction, especially as this covers the reading drop off between Primary and Secondary school, which I hope to use my illustration powers for good to help keep kids reading well into their teens, despite the odds. I know from experience that my own dyslexia made it hard to keep books, and I remember every illustration being like a life raft in the increasingly stormy seas of text. I have also begun to write and illustrate my own stories, and you can read more about those over here.

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Prior to starting my MA, I illustrated five self-published children's books, and illustrated for the research phase of three more. I have worked with companies and individuals on many types of illustration commissions, from social media assets to animations, office murals to physical products. I love working with children (and adults!) and I lead creative workshops for schools and events, with a special focus on encouraging people to find the fun in drawing again. I also was on the news once, and I got the chance to be a judge for the Hobbycraft Artist of the Year Awards in 2022!

 

If you'd like to get to know more about me you can dive into my periodically updated Instagram page, or even read an old interview blog post from 2019 (I still stand by everything I said, as of January 2025 anyway...*)
*Except that, I thought I first read Midnight over Sanctaphrax (my introduction to Chris Riddell) aged seven; It was actually published when I was ten, but I have a habit of thinking that the most important touchstones in my life happened when I was seven. It was my favourite age so far after all.​​​​