I've been thinking about the sea quite a bit just recently, I'm missing it, and this led me to thoughts of seashells. I've had a few...

It's August, it's time for Summer School with Make It In design. I've taken this twice before, it's always challenging and great fun and...

Horace Walpole proposed this 'new' word in 1754 – after reading The three princes of Serendip, a fairy tale in which the heroes were...

It's a New Year and January looks like this - a new collection - and some of these and a couple of variations have already been submitted...

Some of you may have noticed I've been revamping the website and have been through several transitions. The first move was to update my...

Gosh, it's the second week of October and I bet you're all wondering where I've been since my last post ...well I've been...

Now and again I buy a magazine, not any magazine but something inspiring like Selvedge, Embroidery, Ceramics Review or Crafts. In the...

Now sometimes things do not go to plan, I start on one track and end up on another ...with something quite different. So I left you in...

Or how I created my latest fabric design for Spoonflower. I read the contest brief – Using at least two of the colors from the palette...

Indulging in more Bootcamp loveliness with Lilla Rogers over at Make Art That Sells, and this month's mini assignment had us...

Bootcamping again with Make Art That Sells, and this months assignment was Suffragettes. I was given Madeline (Madge) McDowell...

The brief was to create an animal for a small child's T shirt. My first idea was a giraffe saying Hi! and the second was an elephant in a...

Part of a Global Interactive Art Library which contains over 36,000 sketchbooks, from more than 100 countries, within the walls of the...

Week four: The next decision was which part of the book I should illustrate, and I did these rough sketches of a scene where Eleanor...

Weeks two and three I drew Eleanor some more and got to know her and how she would look when she laughed, smiled, cried or when she was...

It seems ages since I told you all I was taking an online course with Make Art That Sells in Children's book Illustration, it was in...

I was talking to my Aunt the other day and she reminded me that she has kept every Christmas card I have made and sent to her ...and that...

As you all know I've been indulging in some CPD – Continuing Professional Development – with a wee twist, five fun and information packed...

Unashamed plug for Lilla Rogers MATS courses. CPD for Illustrators! Being an artist is not the Bohemian dream some people think it is or...

I recently read The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, in it there is a mention of a map signed by the cartographer who added "drawn by...