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Please find below a selection of various illustration work from the last five years including both professional and recreational examples.

Featured work

Michael Rosen collaboration

In 2022 I was privileged to illustrate the children's graphic novel, You're Thinking About Tomatoes. Published by Unbound the book is a 118-page full colour adaptation of Michael Rosen's classic book of the same name.

Uh-oh… Frank isn’t doing well at school, and he has just been told off by his head teacher again…

He has one last chance to prove himself: all he has to do is follow the rules on his class trip to Chiltern House, complete his worksheet and stay out of trouble.

But when a girl steps out of a painting and steals Frank’s worksheet, staying out of trouble is easier said than done. Together, they embark on a perilous adventure to discover the girl’s lost identity, uniting with new friends along the way who show Frank all is not as it seems in this stately home.

How did the owners of Chiltern House come to own its priceless treasures? Can the secrets of the past ever really stay hidden? Will Frank’s head teacher stop him and his new friends before they find out the truth?

For this book I adapted the script for the comic medium then illustrated, coloured and lettered ready for publication. I was also commissioned by Mecob book cover designers to illustrate the cover.

In 2024 I was commissioned by the Cheese and Grain to create a promotional poster for the visit of Michael Rosen.

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