About Me

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• I'm a professional designer and illustrator from the commercial/retail world.

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• I'm passionate about what I do and I want to share my artwork with special people, like you, who are celebrating a special event. It is YOUR day, that is what matters to me.

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• I offer something quite UNIQUE and ORIGINAL with artwork free from AI generation or enhancement. I have developed a particular style of quick, live, on-the-spot illustration which cannot easily be replicated.

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• For Celebrations, I'm a supplier who does not request and food or drink - I like to be self-contained and I need nothing on the day. I'm almost invisible on the day, blending into the background unobtrusively and skilled at drawing people and things from a distance

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• People often say my work looks like that of Quentin Blake who illustrated Roald Dahl books. I rarely look at his work in case I do get to copy his style a little too closely. He is not my main source of inspiration and I am more inspired by the ink and linework of Ronald Searle and many contemporary Urban Sketchers.

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As a child, I had the freedom to explore on a Worcestershire farm and in countryside in which I could play, get muddy and expand my imagination. Years later, my illustration work revisits this idyllic world with a sense of fun, playfulness, whimsicality and nostalgia. For many years I worked commercially designing Christmas cards and other Christmas products. From January 2027, I will be doing my own creative work full-time. Left to my own devices I can enter a world of caricatures, cartoons and quirky animals where I am equally at home sketching in cafes as beneath windswept trees on lonely hills south Shropshire. I love sketching on an iPad or with a trusty fountain pen on a favourite sketchpad.

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