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I'm not sure when the official start of spring is but its round a bout now i think! The start of spring inspired this embroidered illustration x

I noticed a big increase in views this weeks thanks to a feature on Illustration Friday, which is a lovely blog which showcases lots of great Illustrators, so really nice to have my work on there. The…

I grabbed a bit of time to do some more pattern based ideas with some of the flower stems from yesterday - this time some linear stems in rows x

A mix of cats and flowers for a monday morning x

So I continued to experiment with all the flowers and pot plants of recent weeks, think these could make good ideas for cards x

It seems apt for flowers to feature on Mothers Day, so here is a pattern from some simple collage paper flower stems x

Where did this week go? I seemed to of lost a week in amongst, school, children, work etc... Found a bit of time tonight to experiment with an alphabet idea that was suggested to me, I have lots of va…

Most people aren't a fan of Mondays - not me, love mondays.

Its all been about the flowers on my blog this month x

Some more of my combined collage and colours x

I love muted colours and don't often get chance to use them. I worked on altering the colours in this collage and created a simple repeat with subtle changes in colours. I remember during my degree do…

I have mixed up some of my recent fabric swatches and some of my new collage flowers and created this new pattern x

I often think I would love to go back and do another degree, or even just another course where I could just do experimental work and try out new techniques. I think the best year I did was my art foun…

So in stark contrast to yesterday my creative brain turned up today. I got loads of freelance work done and managed to find time to do these. Still really like working with mixed media, so these are p…

Some days no matter what you try, it just doesn't happen, today has been one of those days. I started things, re started them, started something new, changed the process, changed the media, looked for…

We went for a walk today, up in the hills with blue skies and fresh air. The boys legged it round, climbed a few hills and ran off some energy. Good start to the day, even one of my collages made it t…

Decided to send some of the rest of them out for a trip to the countryside...

Sometimes Fridays take a long time to appear and this week it took a while, but its here - roll on the weekend .....

I quite like the process of scanning in my paper based work and experimenting with different outcomes, nice to start fusing my subject matter together x