5 years Freelance; a recap and lessons learned

I was making a presentation recently for a talk at UAL for their Careers and Employability department, the topic was; ‘Buy me! Turn your creativity into sellable products’. I decided to present a timeline of how my products, website and photography have evolved and it...

Cotswolds Break!

You’d think a trip to the Cotswolds in February would be in invitation for snow but the UK is having an alarming (global warming) heatwave this Feb so we actually had lovely weather! We decided to go as we’ve never been, we love a road trip and to celebrate our 12...

DIY Patched Denim Jacket

Back in 2016 I went on a road trip to California and while at Renegade in San Francisco I came across a vintage Levi’s jacket that I fell in love with. I knew then that a Harley Davidson patch I’d found years before in a charity shop, finally had it’s home! And so a...

Drawing trip with Caran d’Ache

When I received an email inviting me on a trip to Geneva to look around the Caran d’Ache Factory my first thought was this is too good to be true! Charlotte Ager, Jacqueline Colley and Maria Ines Gul Photo credit: Igor Laski courtesy of Caran d’Ache But I said yes and...

Making a Matchbook Mural

What I learned from my first experience; designing and painting a wall muralSo this all started because I’d been having a couple of quiet days / weeks on the freelance illustration front, that tends to drive me crazy, so I need a project! Time for me to make some...

London’s top 5 Craft & illustration Fairs

This post I originally published on the 31st of July 2018 but I’ve decided to update it for 2020 as over the last couple of years there’s been a lot more events popping up and while some have become stronger others may not have and I don’t want you guys to read...

New York City Guide

Check out my previous post for other details on our East Coast Road Trip, here I’m rounding up NYC highlights! We arrived in New york with a huge list of things we wanted to see and visit and worked our way through as best we could! We started off with a little...

East Coast US Trip

The Aztec Motel Wildwood The first stop on our East Coast trip was Wildwood an eclectic town on the New Jersey coast where we stayed at the historic 1950’s Motel The Caribbean famous for it’s Doo Wop Style and architecture which did not disappoint!...