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October started with mine and Tom’s first date night (to see Wicked no less!) in as long as I can remember, and ended with us all waving him in on the ferry after he returned home from nearly a month away. In between was lots of pumpkins, makin
Halloween, but make it wholesome, cosy and crafty ✂️🎃🍬 A few snaps from a half-term halloweeny art workshop I hosted in my community earlier this week for children (and their grown-ups too!). I even managed to bake some biscuits for it, which were
Sometimes projects come along at just the right time, with just the right people, and end up totally aligning with where you are at with your own creative practice. This is one of them: illustrating @londonwriterssalon new weekly writing contest, ove
On this soggy September evening, the eve of my second baby’s first birthday no less, I am reflecting on recent moments of creativity and colour and chaos and calm and connection and celebration and cake and cuddles and community in this windy,
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Ahhh, there’s so much I could say about this day, about this season of mothering, about mothering without a mother etc etc. So much I want to say, and I will. But it’s late and I’ve run out of time, so instead I’ll share this
When Valentine’s Day coincides with your first creative workshop in a new place, coincides with being a mum, coincides with your toddler (and therefore your own) Pink Era, coincides with you remembering that you really are a very creative perso
I haven’t had *quite* as much time to create new art recently (unless you count painting my toddler’s face as a pumpkin for trick-or-tricking tonight that is!), so here’s a few witchy illustrations instead, along with some initial s
‘Two mothers, three generations, four daughters’ (11th Sept, 2023) __________________________________ Second post of the day (and hour, and past six months for that matter!), but I thought this sketch deserved a place on my feed: &ldqu
Well, we did it: we narrowly missed out on Two Under Two. Because apparently two is such a notoriously easy age eh?! 🤭🍰❤️ We love you E (even more than you love raspberries!) - every version of you that’s been, currently is, and will be. #B
Very many months ago, I was commissioned by @stylistmagazine to write about the importance of a support ‘village’ in the first year of motherhood, specifically when going back to work after maternity leave (although, admittedly as a freel
On my way back from Brighton after a three-day illustration job and I’m feeling lighter and brighter and somehow both exhausted and energised all at the same time. 18 months into motherhood and it’s the first time I’ve been away ove
Inky lines of love ✍️✨💫 (Adapted from a sketchbook life drawing I did of Elph ‘in the wild’ last year, as part of @thegoodshipillustration picture book course – which I’m still yet to finish and have to constantly remind my
I think what I love most about creating poems from cut-out words (a practice I picked up in the first year of my art psychotherapy training), is that given the same newspaper on the same day, you would have cut out different words to me. And then, wh
A wholesome snapshot of October 2022, ft. acorn hunting in the garden, handsome warty gourds, our final morning coffee & potter around Devizes, market pastel de natas, walks in the woods around our new home, including nature-watching to an Elphie
“Summer of Play” Aug, 2022 *available as a print, DM to buy* ______________________________________________ I’ve been collecting and cutting and pasting and playing and creating for a while now (well, since I could hold a pen an
Aldeburgh on Friday, with my favourite 40-something and my favourite 11-monther 🍓🌞