New addition to the family.

One of the best things this year was adopting Mr Tinkers ( He was already named Tinkers so we decided to keep it). Shortly before his 3rd birthday he found himself at Romney House Cattery for rescued cats. He was quite a timid little character, a little bony and probably too nervous to eat , but as soon as he poked his furry face out from his hidey-hole, we instantly fell in love with him. He is such a funny little character and often wedges himself behind me on the chair as i work - he's a great back warmer! Oh and definitely a little fatter now. :o)

Neon Monster Birthday Cards

More Greeting Cards

Where has the time gone?

I can't believe it's been over a year since my last post! I've been so busy with very little time to even switch on my PC. For the past 18 Months i have been commuting 5 hours ever day to work as a greetings card stylist. It's been hard work but i will miss all the lovely people i've had the pleasure of working with. Some of the cards i've worked on are for next years occasions so unfortunately i can't show any of them until then. Below are a few from a range of cards i worked on in summer last year and are available in shops including John Lewis and Fenwicks.

November doodles

A little bonfire themed illustration i did recently.

Animal Lover

Not wanting to do anything too over the top this year, i created an illustration based on the love a little girl character has for her 2 pets in a 'loosely based' valentines spot the difference for the HMRC internal magazine.

Sam and the Robots

It's all go this month. I spent the last year working on lots of great things and they have been launched within weeks of each other. A childhood dream came true when I was asked to draw a ladybird book back in late 2011. This month it was finally published.  Not quite the usual style, but it is very colourful and 'robotty'! Below (and not in order as I'm posting via the blogger app) are a few pages from the book. 

Mountain Tales of Norway book illustration.

Over the Christmas period and earlier this year, I was illustrating a book, Mountain Tales of Norway by Margaret McAllister. It includes 2 stories, the first about a farmer and his wife and the second about a woodcutter who has quite a bad troll infestation in his log cabin! It is published by Pearson and available on Amazon.

Below are a few initial character sketches and final images.

Sleepy bear

Character sketches

Sheep in progress

Various pages

Little Big advert.

The Elephants make an appearance on tv!

Elephants for Morrisons' Little Big baby range

Last year I worked with creative agency Elmwood to produce a logo for Morrisons' new baby range which is now in stores. The logo can be seen across a range of baby accessories.