MY STORY

I am a designer, I am creative, I am me. I don’t want to fit into a neatly packaged box with the label graphic designer or illustrator. I want to play, experiment and explore processes forever, which is why my end goal is to become a teacher.

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My creative journey started after my BTEC many years ago when I was too wild to settle into university where I was studying ceramics and glass. First time leaving home and life was a party, so I left university after the first year and ended up on another path becoming a pastry chef, catering manager, wife and mother.

 

At the height of my career Covid 19 hit and I was made redundant. This gave me the time I hadn't had for 14 years to sit and evaluate my life.
I decided to return to the creative path and enrol onto a Graphic Design BA which I would use in my plan to become a teacher and have a better work life balance compared to working in the hospitality sector. I haven't looked back since! Returning to university as a mature student was a great choice as my life experience and perspective shape my choices. I found I use a lot of my chef skills in the studio too, whether that be time management or cooking up an ink from foraged materials.

 

I have passion for printmaking and getting my hands dirty, I am a maker with drive, energy and vision. I particularly like pushing boundaries to find sustainable, cost effective and environmentally conscious ways of adapting traditional and modern processes. I enjoy designing and making for a cause or a purpose, dissecting a social or environmental issue and challenging myself to design a way to improve it.
 

I use my experience with foraging to make inks and dyes then usually have a plan for the by-product of this trying to utilise it in alternative processes such as paper making.

I prefer handmade processes but also enjoy the flexibility of taking the handmade into a digital processes and making something completely different which often turns back into a developed handmade outcome.