1. SKETCHES/HOW I WORK
My desk is always very messy...
But this mess makes total sense to me and I simply cannot find inspiration without it. I love to work outside or in front of an open window: the windier the better!
Browse away, they can move!
Wonderful projects with wonderful people.
Design Leadership Network (DLN)
“The Design Leadership Network is a membership organization serving principals of architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture firms, as well as leaders of related creative fields”. (cf DLN’s website)
Illustrations for a magazine issue, 2024
Jane Eyre
A series of illustrations for Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre in the manner of Four Corners Books Familiars series.
Research
Final images
Covers
3. MISCELLANEOUS
Bits and bobs
︎︎︎︎︎︎ A giant pudding and a reindeer’s snack for my 2024 Christmas cards
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Tricky puddle
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“What if you need to run?”
Halloween 2024
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Some trees are very old
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The wolf is back!
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A story about a bathroom tile I used to visit in a drawer -
Intrusive thoughts series, “What do you want?”
A story about a bathroom tile I used to visit in a drawer -
Intrusive thoughts series, “What do you want?”
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A story about sheets and the smells of sunday mornings - Intrusive thoughts series, “Where do you go?”
A story about sheets and the smells of sunday mornings - Intrusive thoughts series, “Where do you go?”
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“That’s the one!”
Miss Abigail and Lulu the sausage dog at the haberdashery
“That’s the one!”
Miss Abigail and Lulu the sausage dog at the haberdashery
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Three naughty dogs for my 2023 Christmas cards
Three naughty dogs for my 2023 Christmas cards
Mushroom picking - Halloween 2023 ︎︎︎
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︎︎︎ Worried piratesA summery witch who speaks to swallows ︎︎︎
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︎︎︎ Que la vie en vaut la peine, AragonThe Fliers of Gy, Ursula le Guin ︎︎︎
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Close up of a picnic on a cliff
Close up of a picnic on a cliff
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I fell in love with everything victorian the minute I met Austen and the Brontës. I became obsessed with what I’m still calling the “Jane Eyre haircut” and Miss Abigail was born.
︎︎︎ Just a dash of Johnny Cash gloom.
︎︎︎ Better to be safe than sorry.
Always water the pumpkins properly.
Always water the pumpkins properly.
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Lemonade in the green house
︎︎︎ No, the dog isn’t dead.
My grandmother was very concerned about him - has he just been violently murdered by the witch in pink?!
But witches only hurt those who deserve it, everybody knows that.
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Sudden inspiration
or the power of beer
︎︎︎ As Dorothy says it so well:
‘There’s no place like home’
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. CARDS
Things I send to the ones I love
︎︎︎ Happy New Year 2024
︎︎︎ To Paps
︎︎︎ To Naomi
︎︎︎ To Amel
︎︎︎ To Gabs
︎︎︎ To Mad
︎︎︎ New Year’s 2022
To Mam ︎︎︎
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5. BOOKS & STORIES
Books I make and stories I tell
Rush & Roar
A collection of storms in literature and the best ways to read them.
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![The Tale of Two Cities quote from where I stole the title]()
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![Jane Eyre - in the moonlight with a glass of hot milk]()
![A moveable feast - ALWAYS on a rainy commute with a cup of coffee balanced on your knees]()
![Wind, sand and stars - hiding from a heatwave in a cool staircase drinking homemade iced tea]()
The home alone checklist - a children’s book
Books I make and stories I tell
Rush & Roar
A collection of storms in literature and the best ways to read them.
The home alone checklist - a children’s book
People first - Cedric Price’s biography
The book unfolds to make the shape of the Generator, Price's most iconic but unbuilt project (cf red drawing on tracing paper below).
