Family Fun Magazine

This was for an article in the US Family Fun Magazine about a young girl overcoming her fear of cycling up hill. I have the same fear about driving up hills! 

Sketchbook - Before and After the Revolution

I refound this in an old sketchbook.  It shows the changing lives of two dogs before and after the Revolution!

Pooch Parade Painting

This is a painting I did recent - a version of my "logo". Doggies on their way to a party.

Sydenham Artists Trail

I'm taking part in Sydenham Visual Arts Trail - an open house/studio event. It's over two weekends and this Saturday and Sunday the 14th and 15th of July is the second weekend. I was so busy making the things I'm slow to write about it! 


It is from 11am to 5pm on both days and you can find me at 15 Bishopsthorpe Road, Sydenham, SE26 4NY, less than 5 minutes walk from Sydenham Station. Here is a link to the Sydenham Visual Arts Trail information page on the festival site (we are number 31). 


I'm showing my new small acrylic animal painting and lots of hand painted ceramics, plus lampshades I've made from my own fabric designs and digital prints and greetings cards.
Leila Khasal is showing her jewellery and also on show at the house are eight large mosaics relating to famous Sydenham area connections (Logie Baird, Ernest Shackleton, Pissarro etc) prior to being put up on a building in the community.


There are over 46 homes/locations in the area open and more than 100 artists participating - so lots to see and a lot of the open houses are in the streets joining Bishopsthorpe Road.

I would love to see you!

Decorative Tape and Mailing labels

Taping up a screen print to post  this morning it was fun to use the tape I designed for TapeSwell. I also did these labels based on doily designs. Looks a little more exciting than my usual masking taped parcels!

First Ever Animation

I drew these doggies a couple of weeks ago. Dennis mapped it out for me and I was to draw over in my style. I don't know if I'd make a very good paint and trace person as I couldn't help making little changes....so any errors are mine and not Dennis's!

It was amazingly exciting to see my still drawings move - it really made me appreciate the thrill animators must feel.

Rhode Island Monthly

This was for a piece in Rhode Island Monthly back in May last year. I remembered about it as I've just completed my third illustration for the magazine. All three illustrate articles written by the author Ann Hood. I love her writing as it's incredibly vivid and poignant. This one was about her relationship with her mother and how over the years though she had experienced many changes her mother's support had remained constant. It was a double page spread with the top image on the left page and the lower image on the right hand page.