A collaborative project with cosmetics behemoth Avon, launching their new perfume collection Eve Become with a femela-focussed team. Ink and digital, freeform illustration was created around the models, kicked off with live sketching at a London shoot.

A small, release-what-you-like-when-you-like record label, with a perfectly ornery name. Along the way we're had airplay from the likes of Zane Lowe, now massive music cheese at Apple, and Rob Da Bank.

I've exhibited a lot, sometimes in galleries, sometimes in group shows and in our own gallery space (they;'re all listed on my site). But this one, If a Girl Writes Off The World in 2006-7, was the biggest undertaking, touring to London, Manhattan and Rhode Island, entirely self-funded, and was the kickoff for a whole new chapter of creative work and opportunities. Bless this 3am-built Dreamweaver website!

I speak to all audiences from primary school through to graduate, post-graduate level and professional colleagues, at events in schools and events anywhere. And I've been doing that since the very beginning! I'm an enthusiastic member of the UK's Speakers4Schools programme too.

I've written a blog fastidiously since 2008, and this has expanded to the Medium platform and the writing I'm currently doing on larger long-form projects. I'm currently represented by Megan Carroll at literary agency Watson Little.

I stopped entering competitions some years ago as I became increasingly uncomfortable with their modus operandi, but prior to that I had a nice little collection of them. I make an exception these days, when I fancy it, for the ABCD Awards run by my book cover colleagues, and the V&A Awards, for which my cover for 'Dreadful Young Ladies' was chosen in 2019.

I began working as an illustrator, actually, before I'd even graduated, when I was asked to make an image for the cover of a legendary actress's autobiographical first book. I then won an award for my experimental typography and lettering and carried two folios for the first couple of years before realising...I didn't have to.

My work since that point has been irrevocably intertwined with words and letters, along the way working for clients around the world, building our own gallery space, running a pirate radio station, a chocolate company, a busy shop, a record label, music accessories business, an ink business and myriad other extra-curricular projects.

They're not 'side' projects, btw; the majority of the most exciting things I've ever done have grown out of these mad, collaborative, sometimes financially illogical personal projects. Amen to that!

I speak regularly for schools around the UK, sharing the story of my career so far with children of all ages. I'm there to reassure and inspire them that a job drawing pictures every day IS a real thing, and can be achieved if you want it!