Children’s book illustrator, mixed media artist and art facilitator based in East Sussex.
Workshops
In the past 5 years, I have been organising and planning learning activities oriented towards school-age children and toddlers in a museum setting, which included arts & crafts events and storytelling sessions. Currently available for visits, talks and workshops - both online and in person - and for a variety of age groups.
Previous Workshops
Paint Class: Go Wild! Illustrate your Wildlife postcard
In this fun and informative workshop, students learnt how to create stunning postcards inspired by the curious animal characters in the vibrant natural world found along the coasts of England.
Fantastical Figureheads
Cutty Sark is looking for a new figurehead! After more than 150 years of service, Nanny the Witch has decided to retire and create trouble elsewhere. Taking inspiration from Royal Museums Greenwich vast collection of figureheads we invited families to reimagine and design a new figurehead for the ship!
The new Cutty Sark figureheads that families created during this 3-day workshop, during Easter Half Term 2023.
The Wild Escape: Make a Wildlife Comic
As part of The Wild Escape project, Prendergast Ladywell School and Trinity Primary School joined me for a day of workshops, where together we created colourful comic strips, depicting storylines which saw the animals escaping the Horniman Natural History Gallery, and returning to their wild habitat.
Two of the five boards, that pupils from Prendergast Ladywell School and Trinity Primary School created as part of the Wild Escape project, in collaboration with Art Fund. These boards were on display between April and June 2023 in the Horniman Gardens.
Earth Day Workshop
Choose your favourite animal and imagine its wild escape to a habitat rich in life. Does your wildlife hero run, swim, crawl or fly? Draw pictures to illustrate your story and let your imagination go wild! Get ready to design your comic book inspired by the wildlife found inside the Horniman Museum & Gardens Collections.
This workshop was part of The Wild Escape, a major new project led by Art Fund uniting hundreds of museums with schools and families in a celebration of UK wildlife and creativity. The pictures and stories children create were brought together in a collective work of art that imagined a better future for the wildlife on our doorstep, launched online and in venues across the UK on Earth Day 2023.
Horniman Museum and Gardens: Museum Club
In November 2022 I was appointed by the Horniman Museum & Gardens to design and facilitate two workshops for their "Museum Clubs", a 10-week after-school club, for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Together we created a climate pledge board, posters and signages to encourage school groups, who regularly visit the museum Education Centre, to responsibly recycle.
Climate Pledge Board designed with Athelney Primary School.
The final designs of the bin posters created with Athelney Primary School.
Polly Plum Brave Adventurer: Draw Along - Events
During these two events, I had the opportunity to teach families how to draw different characters from my book Polly Plum: Brave Adventurer, such as singing pirates, a boastful ghost, and a very hungry walrus, while adding some insights on how I developed each one of them.
The events were based at the National Maritime Museum and Cutty Sark
At Sea Without Tea - Read & Draw Along Workshop
Follow Cutty Sark cook James Robson across the seven seas, as he searches for Tea for Captain Woodget! Read along and learn how to draw his animal friends, Dinah the Panda, Vervet the Monkey & Oz the Kangaroo.
