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🧹✨The Little Broom Stall✨🧹
The same illustration, posted in two places at the same time. One received 13k likes, the other 325. Don't let social media reactions determine how you feel about your work! It's all nonsense.

If I had only posted this

I've always been curious about this little witch. I didn't intend for her to look like a cowboy, but I love that she kinda does. It makes me want to watch a western about horse riding, yeehawing witches!

Another oldie while I emerge from maternity

Cute doodle from 2021. Hope my little girl has an animal friend one day. This one looks like a good listener.

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Speed sketch! In a heatwave with a wiggly baby on my lap #multitaskingmumlife

Didn't know what I was going to draw, just moved my hand about and this came out. Thought it was cute, might delete later 😂

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This was such an enjoyable commission for the wonderful @beckyboodles, featuring her lovely daughters. My first time mixing pressed flowers with illustration!
Must press more this summer 🌻🌿🐌🌿🌸

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Grumpy little teaparty mermaid (and rightfully so!)

I think this was for #mermay or for #drawmoor a few years back - can't remember!

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Wish I had an autumn rug like this! And a dog!
Another oldie while I'm on #maternityleave

Have just started some exciting new projects though, so new work will eventually be uploaded! 😊✏️👍

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Night Riders! Another oldie from my digital sketchbook.

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I can't wait to press some more flowers this summer! They're so fun to mix into drawings 🌿

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Loved designing this witch from the Middle Ages wearing a hennin! This was just some personal work I made for fun, exactly 4 years ago.

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Some more from Someone I Love Had a Stroke, with @differentstrokesuk

@laurenciabutternutsquash & Genise at Different Strokes put so much love into this project and it's been really lovely to hear how the resources are helping families at home a

It's weird how many of my ideas involve magical greenhouses. I reeeaaally want to make more greenhouse art soon!

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Can't wait to show my daughter what autumn is! (While trying not to wish away the summer before the sunshine even finds us! What's with all this rain?)

This one is from 2021, but I still quite like it 🍁🍂

It's available as a digital download on my

French publisher, Fleurus Editions, approached me back in the summer of 2022 about illustrating a ghost story for 9 year olds - right up my street! The project involved revamping an existing series of children’s anthologies and required 8 full-

Alongside sharing some illustration projects from the last couple of years that I haven't posted before, I'm going to revisit some old stuff from my grid that catches my eye. Maybe a little background character, or a style I'd like to try again.

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Hello! Thank you so much for such a warm welcome back on my previous post 🥰

As I mentioned, last year I had the absolute pleasure of working with @differentstrokesuk to completely revamp their children's resources. I edited, designed and illustrat

So it seems I haven't posted to my grid in a year! Since last June A LOT has happened.

In the second half of last year I was primarily working on two illustration projects: an animation for the NHS about infant feeding support groups (delightful -

Had a lovely time illustrating this @owlcratejr jigsaw puzzle, inspired by the middle grade book Mapmaker, by Lisa Moore Ramée 🐉🌋✏️🦋

I worked on this towards the end of last year, so it's wonderful to see it finally out in the world as par

Doodled a little helicopter seed fairy.

(Collected a whole bunch of little fairy wing seeds, when I should've been paying attention to @jade.taylormadefitness in a PT session - sorry Jade!)

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Love drawing Tarkus' house from The Midnight Hunt!! :)

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