Earthy Roots is a sustainable bee keeping business based in Cambridgeshire, with apiaries in Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire producing products and experiences around bee-keeping, foraging and honey. I have worked with them since their conception to produce endearing spot illustrations for their website & packaging. I have also created promotional animations, gift cards and exclusive prints for their shops.
Shop through the Earthy Roots website,
Handmade, appliquéd Owl Quilt made for my baby boy.
Thinking Of You / Still Thinking Of You: I was commissioned by the NHS to create cards to be given out to parents who have recently lost children in hospital, offering support, guidance and help during the most heartbreaking and devastating of times. I was so grateful to be given the chance to make something that could give - even if it is the teeny tiny-est - bit of hope, guidance and support during the darkest of days. Hopefully not many people will need to see them in real life, but I wanted to share them here.
My own side hustle! Cake Disco is a shop selling fun handmade illustrated cake toppers for your celebration! Look here!
Rock n Roll Wolves on motorcycles + playing guitars - illustrated printed pattern for Childrenswear.
Decorative and fun - cat and tiger balls (toys, cushions!) to brighten up any room, nursery, bedroom, front room…
A self published zine. The Commute zine is illustrated observations from my commute to work since 2012.
I spent a big chunk of time on trains and would always encounter interesting characters. I would draw them to pass the time, and have complied them into this illustrated zine. I distribute them back on the commute, so they go on their own little journeys, hopefully brightening up a long journey for a fellow passenger.
Illustrations for health. I was approached by the team at the NICU in Leeds General Infirmary to produce large scale wall vinyl’s to brighten up the wards. There are five wards in total, all are in the process of being installed this year. Stay tuned as I update with the rooms and corridor designs as they are installed!
The jungle room is up and the woodland room is too. Bryn’s Wall takes a prominent position in the woodland room - Bryn is the name of a baby who was cared for in the NICU. Bryn’s parents fundraised so that this project could go ahead and his name, hill and wall will forever look over the staff and children being looked after on this ward.
I felt so honoured to be asked to create this artwork, in such an important space.
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The children have to stay in the hospital overnight while the parents normally have to return home. This can be a nerve-wrecking time, being apart from their newborns. Muslin cloths can be used as a bonding tool in this situation, the parents can leave their scent on the muslins which can be used to comfort and clean the babies when the parents are away. I thought that taking the illustrations around the rooms and printing them on to muslins would be a way for the patients to connect with the illustrations on the ward, but also as a way to feel comfort in an anxious time.
As part of Movember 2022, I exhibited a riso-graph Find Hope poster other riso-ed posters in the Bennington Art Gallery in Nottingham. All proceeds go towards Movember - a Men’s Mental Health Charity.
I love to screen-print on to fabric and in 2020 I designed and printed my own quilt, made up of different owls and moons for my newborn son.
Season Greetings postcards designed for Sapling Horticulture, a gardening and horticulture service based in Lincolnshire. These Christmas botanical cards were to thank their customers for their loyalty and service over the year.
Unusual (but real) creatures make up this popular illustrative print for the home. You have the right to be you, undiluted and true! Just like these lovely beasts.
Shop the print and greetings card here.
These duo of Thicc Tigers began life as an entry to the 2018 Showdown Studio competition - and have been immortalised as prints and on cushions ever since.
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I love pigeons - they are underrated beauty in my eyes. Thee in flight pigeons have been Lino-printed and then screen-printed on to fabric, pouches and pillows.
Available from my shop & from my lovely stockist, Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery.
Unity Yoga is a wellness and yoga studio based in Sheffield. I was approached by them to create a range of illustrations of ‘pose of the month’ that would be used for promotion on their social media.
A personal project to create a Dino Height Chart for my children’s playroom. I designed cheeky + fun dino characters (as requested) and printed a huge wall hanging so we can measure them and create memories as they grow!
Appliquéd, hand embroidered and hand made monkey decorations / pillows / toys. Created in 2016, with 10% of each monkey purchased from my shop donated towards helping endangered monkeys like the Lion Tamarin
Lucky black cat range made in 2016. A range of illustrated cards, wall hangings, black boards, bags and appliqué embroidered pouches.
This range began life as a fundraiser print at The Art House in Wakefield to raise funds towards their fabulous print studio + facilities. It was sold at The Hepworth Gallery In early 2019 and then made into a full range of prints, reproduced from screen-print originals and homewares, including hand cut peg hooks, oven mitts and decorative pillows and cushions.
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Illustrated Staffordshire puppy inspired pouches, fun patterned lining and colourful zips compliment the designs and making each one individual.
Available from the Handmade Collective in Leeds.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year….. spooky season! A range that is related every September to November, inspired by pumpkins, black cats, dressing up and embracing all things ghouly (but cute).
shop. the collection.
Paintings of suffragettes for the one hundredth anniversary of women having the vote.
Just the two of us: A self published mini illustrated zine with Staffordshire Pottery cat and dogs characters, inspired by my own collection of these characterful potteries.
Originally starting life as a short-listed winner in the Uppercase Magazine / Make Art That Sells Surface Pattern Competition in 2015, this quirky hand-painted cat pattern was printed on to cotton and made into a variety of home-wares.
Hand-made illustrated Lion cushions.
Available at The Art House and Our Handmade Collective.
Characters applied to surface at Sunken Studios in Leeds. I worked with Rebecca from the fabulous Sunken Studio to create these charming cat titles for the launch for her website and workshops. Made in 2015.
Head to Sunken Studio to see more of what they do.
Collection made in 2014 from mono-prints of cacti, reproduced into interior art for the home, stationary and pouches. I also used the left over mono print paper shapes as posi’s to screen-print on to a collection of decorative cushions.
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Hand-made masks for interior decoration, made using paper mache and hand-painted.
Shop one-off creations here
A series of illustrations which were used for GCSE teaching and revision aids at University Centre Peterborough (UCP). To be used as printed posters and guides for students. Illustrated are topics that are covered on the curriculum including Physical, Economic, Social and Human Geography.
Staffordshire Pottery cats and dogs are full of character and are super fun to replicate. This collection is a series of plushes/decorative pillows, screen-printed and made in 2014 by hand for interior decoration.
Editorial Illustrations from 2012 - 2013 in Gurgle Magazine.
A selection of illustrations which made up a picture book called ‘Clifford & The Cloud of Fear’ written and illustrated by me as part of my MA in Illustration - completed in 2012.
Clifford & The Cloud of fear is a moral fairy tale of greed, consumerism and the power of childhood innocence.
Cuckoo Clock Illustration made for the Tigerprint studios open day in 2012, which I was lucky enough to attend. I made it into a pattern and screen-printed it on to handmade cushions.
My submission for the AOI Northern Illustration Prize 2019, based on the theme Monkey. I drew lots of endangered monkey characters hanging out in a jungle. Available as a print from my shop
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Short run of Screen-prints, 2018.
Printed at The Art House, a short run of Staffordshire pottery inspired characters - based on my personal collection.
Lullabies In Lockdown was a group illustration exhibition in Sunny Bank Mills in Leeds in October 2022, showcasing the work of several local, national and international artists who became parents during the Covid pandemic.
The show explores how illustration can be used to make topics accessible: to document, share, unite and advocate for those having lived an experience. It intends to uncover quieter or untold stories around navigating parenthood during the pandemic as well as celebrate the tender moments, precious times and lives of the babies who stayed at home.
Featuring work from Nele Anders, Jenna Lee Alldread, Ruth Batham, Pia Bramley, Lizzie Bhushan, Charlotte Dryden-Kelsey, Beth Duggleby, Isabel Greenberg, Jessika Green, Matthew Hodson, Kim Jihyun, Lorna Johnstone, Sabba Khan, Benjamin Mills, Kate Pankhurst, Bryony Pritchard, Alice Socal, Joanna Spicer and Lilly Williams.
Co-curated with Beth Duggelby and supported by Leeds Inspired.
My submission to the exhibition is pictured with the following blurb:
“I gave birth to my first child a week before we went into a national lockdown. He came early – he was due to arrive a month or so into the lockdown. It actually felt lucky that he arrived sooner and not in the height of all the hospital restrictions. At the time, I really remember not being able to distinguish between the ‘normal’ vulnerability of being a new parent or the heightened paranoia of an unknown virus sweeping the world.
I felt in a state of anxiousness (and awe) for the first few weeks, locked away, with a new baby and no visitors, slowly recovering from a very swift emergency c-section, learning how to breastfeed via zoom with the health visitors and the midwives. It felt wonderful, like he was a blessing in amongst the madness, but oh so scary and frightening and… would anything be the same again? What kind of world was this to arrive into?
Having quite a traumatic birth, I was unable to walk or stand for a long time after. Recovery felt much harder than I had ever anticipated. I am an Illustrator and had a yearning to draw through this time and continue with freelance projects, but was unable to use anything other than my iPad, cradling a sleeping baby in one arm and drawing with the other. It seems quite fitting that my drawings are digital – the only medium I could comfortably use at that time.
I drew these in March 2020 with a loose intention for them becoming a zine to document the time, but as the demands of motherhood grew, I hadn’t revisited these, or even looked at them until I read about the call out for this exhibition. I feel that these drawings could sit amongst a wider narrative around what it felt like at that specific time to have a newborn ; for me, a mixture of anxiety and the overwhelming urge to protect.”
