I'm an illustrator, fair-weather campervan person, and an orange cat specialist (qualification not yet formally recognised), living near Cambridge in the UK. I am going to try and keep this 'about page' vaguely sensible and to the point, which is difficult for my excitable neurodivergent brain. You can find more blurbs of my actual voice in various other places in or around this website.

 

I have just finished studying on the part-time Children's Book Illustration MA at the Cambridge School of Art. I am extremely proud to have been awarded a full scholarship to attend this course by QEST. Please do take a look at my talented classmates on our CSACBI Instagram page or our graduate website.

 

I am desperate to illustrate for middle grade, both fiction and nonfiction, as this category includes the books that peaked my imagination and encouraged my love of reading and drawing. I have enjoyed using my voice as both me (aged 34 and ¾) and younger me, to tell humorous, quirky, and warm tales through illustrations and storytelling on the course.  

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Before the course, I have illustrated five self-published children's books, and you can still buy three of them from my shop. I also have worked with companies and individuals on many types of illustration commissions, from murals to merch, animations to surprise engagement illustrated poems, and even judging the Hobbycraft Artist of the Year Awards. You can see a selection of the clients I've worked with below. I also still moonlight as a Graphic Designer occasionally (which used to be my full-time job) where I continue to learn so much about the world of digital and print media.

 

If you'd like to get to know more about me you can dive into my Instagram page (snippets of which are below), 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.​​​​