Stay in the know with my illustration news from shop updates, new projects and announcements, along with tips and tricks of the freelance illustration trade I’ve learnt along the way!
Honoured to be part of rapper and grime artist JoSoSick’s creative process and asked to illustrate the cover art for his EP titled SickNote, released 20th April 2026. His vision was for a medicine bottle to be pouring out icons and imagery that represents the themes within his music, including women, heart break, toxic traits, drinking, tracksuits, inflatables, grief, messaging, money, and music.
Loved working on this and hoping for more music related briefs this year!
As well as teaching myself animation this year, I’ve also been working towards the goal of producing and printing BIG, so I was really excited when the opportunity popped up to create a mural for the science department at Lochinver House School 🔬🧪🧑🔬
Whilst not in my personal illustrative style, the opportunity to design, print, and instal this vinyl wall art was a HUGE learning curve, that I’m super grateful for!
I’ve worked on a large scale and in vinyl before, but from the designing, printing, and install, this mural gave me SO many annoying issues that I had to work around, however, despite the frustration, I am actually somewhat glad that these challenges did pop up, as I learnt a lot through them! I’m excited to have this new skill in my creative repertoire and I’m hoping to produce and instal similar pieces, more in my style, in the future. And hopefully next time, I’ll be all the wiser and next time it will be more of a seamless process!
I’ve also got a progress/timelapse video over on Instagram.
Watch this space and get in touch if you’d like to enquire about a big wall art project for your home, school or business!
I took a little break from the animation and exhibition preparation grind with a day trip to Sheffield recently, and despite really enjoying the momentum I’m working with at the moment, it was really good to do something different and explore somewhere new.
Sheffield has been on my agenda for a long time now, I’d never visited before but I continuously heard positive praise that drew me towards it. Perspectives that boasted about its creative scene, as well as its closeness in proximity to The Peak District, and phrases like “you’d love it, it’s the Bristol of The North” all made me very keen to see what the hype is all about.
And then the perfect opportunity to visit all fell into place when a trip there was proposed with my studio residency, Scunthorpe Studio School @ fountain arts!
We were kindly toured round Bloc Projects, Graves Gallery, and Site Gallery, by individuals at each institute, and given a greater understanding about how studio and exhibition opportunities worked there. We then took ourselves to the botanical gardens and a quick trip to the pub to share our perspectives on the city, which we all loved!
I could have gone back to the studio that evening to continue working on my project, but I felt to calling to stick around Sheffield for another night, so I drove my camper to a stunning spot in The Peak District to watch the sun set over the hills, which as if that wasn’t already beautiful enough, some gorgeous cows joined me right outside my door, and so I felt inspired to draw them!
I also shared a timelapse progression video thanks to Procreate, which I can be seen on my Instagram. I don’t often share my quicker /messier drawings but it was really nice to draw last night in nature and with no expectations, simply to be inspired and take a break from my project without productivity guilt.