Mailer Illustrations for Médecins Sans Frontières

A few weeks ago I was contacted by Dot and Becky at A Couple of Birds Design, to create some illustrations for Médecins Sans Frontières. Although the request for the illustrations was to be quite different from my usual style of detailed and colourful, I had worked for Dot before and was up for the challenge, especially as the client does such incredible aid work around the world.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translates to Doctors without Borders. They provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare.

I completed 3 sketch style illustrations to be placed in Thank You mailers for some of the on-going donaters. (Only 2 out of 3 are shown below for privacy reasons.)

Bright and Bold Hand-Made Frames

I’ve always gone for plain black or white when it comes to framing my work, to not distract from the artwork. But recently I thought why not get bold coloured frames that compliment and adds to the illustrations. After chatting to a couple customers, and seeing lots of people on Tiktok and Instagram reels using wooden dots and paint to decorate frames, I decided to give it a go and inject a little life into some old Wilko (RIP) frames that I had lying around gathering dust.

Sourcing the tools and getting the wooden dots stuck down was pretty straight forward, but I’m incredibly picky when it comes to colour, and unfortunately after trying a few different shades of pink spray paint, this particular frame still didn’t come out the colour that I wanted, to compliment the Pink Panther illustration. And it’s now layered up with paint beyond salvation… however I’m pretty happy how the other 3 came out!

These one offs are available to purchase online, as well as at markets, they all have their imperfections, but thats adds character right?

I’m hoping to give this process another go on some spare A2 frames I have too, now that I’ve learnt from experience some ways to keep it neater. I just need a few days of dry weather so I can keep the mess and chaos to the garden…

National Poetry Day and 10 Years of 575 Wandsworth Road Celebrations

Last night I was warmly welcomed to Battersea Arts Centre to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the National Trust site 575 Wandsworth Road and on National Poetry Day!

I finally got to meet some of the creatives behind the Ujamaa project, hear some of the poems read in person, (as covid previously prevented this back in 2021 when this project was born), and talk as part of a panel about how the site inspired us and our work. It was such an incredibly evening and
another recent moment of many at the moment where I’m so unbelievably grateful for the career I’ve made for myself and the amazing opportunities it comes with! A huge thank you to Writerz & Scribz.

All the works from the project will be up for the next week, so if you’re around South London, make sure you check out this amazing creative space!

New Products! Fruity prints and bookmarks now in store 🍏🍌🍓

New products! 🍏🍐🥝🥭🍌🍋🍊🍓🫐🍒🍍Introducing these new fruity pattern prints to brighten up this rainy afternoon!

If you’ve been following my work for a while you might recognise these illustrations… I actually made them back in the start of 2021. I’ve always really liked them, but totally forgot that they existed until recently, and wanted to bring them back to life 🌞

Square prints felt more fitting for these designs, so I’ve made them available in two sizes 12”x12” and 8”x8”. (Easiest to print and frame) 🖼️

Whenever making square prints, it bothered me that I create a lot of unnecessary waste… to prevent this, I’ve repurposed the offcuts that I get from printing on to A4 and A3 paper, into bookmarks and cute thank you cards! 🔖

Square prints are also now included in the ‘buy 2 get the 3rd half price’ deal, so you can nab the whole collection from £30! 🧡🧡🧡