What inspires me to draw?
I felt in recent months I have lost my way a tad when its come to my independent work, I’ve felt the weight of the internet and the endless scrolling and absorbing of everyone else successes and I’ve felt myself…
Standon Calling with Orchid Pig
It’s been a fair while since I’ve been to a music festival so when I was invited along to Standon Calling in Hertfordshire, I threw caution to wind and decided to go. the festival itself has been running for 12…
Studio days
Does anyone else feel the effects of the weather on their mood, as soon as I woke up this morning, I was in the grumpiest mood, not sure it was the weather, this scary commission I have to power through…
Long distance and is it doable?
Let me tell you something I have learned in the last couple of weeks, long distance relationships suck, I have had them before, he’s only away for three weeks but I hate them. I’m not a massive fan of being…
Top five tips for working from home
So I have been working from home solidly for the last three years, I love it but at times to motivate myself can be a struggle so I thought I would share my top tips on how I manage to…
Behind the scenes of my tattoo vases.
The last few weeks have been pretty busy and have had me travelling about with a few press events, award ceremonies and living without my boyfriend as he is away in Australia at the moment, so I had a few…
Where my heads at
This has been something that up until recently I have been tying desperately hard to ignore, I make it sound super dramatic don’t I? It’s not really I’ve just been struggling I guess with my mental Health right now things…
Recent sketchbook work
So I have fallen back in love with my large square sketchbook, I am also a little bit obsessed with working with floral patterns and I have taken inspiration for Caitlin Shearer’s cookbook photos, today I took a few hours…
I have been nominated for a Mollie Makes Award – product of the …
How exciting is this, I received an email a few or so ago telling me that my “Bloom where you are planted” vases has been shortlisted for Mollie Makes Product of the year award. Unlike the other awards this one…
Luxury Hotel Review – Lords of the Manor, Cotswold
There is nothing I loved more growing up then taking visits to the countryside with my family, so I had been to upper and lower slaughter but I had forgotten just how beautiful it was. Ben and I had the…
Top summer ice tea recipes
So I have teamed up with Newby Tea to share with my favourite of their summer ice tea recipes Newby Tea have a range of 25 blends inspired by the craft and heritage of fine tea.I have always been a…
Baileys book prize illustrated series – The Dark Circle and The Power And …
For the final instalment of my illustrated versions of the Bailey prize book covers comes my very favourite illustrations in the series The Dark Circle is written by Linda Grant, it proves to be a gripping read set in 1949…
