My happiest childhood memories are conjured up when I remember my mother reading ‘Edward the Emu’, ‘Angelina Ballerina’, ‘Burglar Bill’, ‘The Jolly Postman’ and ‘The Borrowers' every evening. I will never forget the wonder of imagining myself with the pages of those magical worlds.

I constantly note down ideas for new stories and endlessly sketch and draw, trying to work how to tell a particular aspect of a story. Ideas come from mundane moments observed during sketching that arouse my curiosity, to respond to a 'hard to explain' quality or spirit of a particular place. My ambition is for my audience to come away feeling something real for them. If a book is instantly forgettable, it has failed.

I graduated from an MA Illustration course at Falmouth University, and have been working as a freelance illustrator since 2017. I'm passionate about children's books, both writing and illustrating. I'm brimming with ideas for new stories. I would love to work on a wide variety of children's book titles on diverse subjects. I'm also interested in illustrating stories by other writers.