To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

The world of illustration is like a giant comfort blanket that enwraps us all. Like many others, I sketched my way through childhood but with little more ambition than to pass a few hours while it rained like cats and dogs outside. 

By the time I reached my late teens, I swapped my pencil for a mouse and spent the next fifteen years engrossed in the world of digital design, barely offering a single thought to the great illustrators that had influenced my earlier years. 

In 2012, I too became a parent and was pulled back into the incredible world of children's fiction and thankfully have never left.

The great shift for me came with the invention of the Apple Pencil and Procreate – two tools which have changed my outlook on art and design forever. Armed with no more than my imagination, I have spent the years since building incredible characters and worlds on a nightly basis. 

My work has evolved beyond all recognition since then and I feel at last my illustration style is wholly mine – loose and energetic, yet at its heart lies a nod to the golden age of print illustration inspired by the greats such as Bernice Myers and Charles M Schulz.