I was approached by the staff at Out North East and Durham Pride to support them with their Roots Of Pride project, a  project that sought to curate suitcases that tell the story of local and national LGBTQIA+ history. These suitcases contain one of a kind items, games, and one off items, all collected and created by myself. Initially these suitcases were taken around various areas of Durham, and now they'll be touring local schools to teach young people about the importance of knowing and understanding LGBTQIA+ history. The suitcases also contain teacher packs with various activities to expand the young peoples learning. 

I created a portrait of our cats to hang in our hallway when you first come into the house, and a friend of mine loved it so much they asked us to create one of their cat Gus. This inspired me to start offering personalised pet portraits, which can be bought online via my Etsy page.

Below are some of the initial pages of a graphic novel idea I started as part of my final major project for my MA, the novel is titled We Cry At The Moon and explores the effect that generational trauma has on families. While this project is still very much ongoing, what you see here are rough ideas of the first 20 pages of that graphic novel.

As part of a narrative storytelling module during my MA I decided I wanted to make a series of illustrations that tell the real life coming out stories of queer people. I interviewed a number of queer people and began a number of designs based on each of the stories told to me, out of everyone's interviews this one spoke to me the most. The interviewee was a trans girl, and the script across the bottom is a direct quote from her.

This illustration was originally used as a cover for a zine I made surrounding mental health and imposter syndrome. Of all of the illustrations within that zine, I liked this one the most.

I created this illustration as an entry to an open submission to SOBER magazine alongside a description of how my early days into sobriety affected me and my mental health. Although it wasn't chosen, I still enjoy it as an illustration.

The first piece of work we were asked to complete as part of my MA was "'the Illustrated I". The intention of this was to demonstrate who we are as illustrators, what our work consists of and what's important to us, I decided to do an I that resembles a book to showcase my love of storytelling, with a mix of the light and dark, showing how I like to play with juxtapositions in my work. 

I was hired to create a set of illustrations for a non-fiction book called The Hedgehog Hotel, written by Patricia Smith. The book explores the authors experiences rescuing local wildlife, and she was looking for an illustrator to help make her book more appealing to younger audiences. Below are some of the illustrations highlighting key points of the book.

In 2020 I released a book called The Sad Girls Guide To Life which had a series of poems inside inspired by some of my own struggles with mental health, body image and self love. Alongside the poetry there are illustrations to match the wording. This was created as the final major project of my BA in Illustration. My book cannot be bought via my online store and must be purchased through amazon, there is a link to this below.

During my Illustration BA course we were asked to design a piece for an illustration competition of our choosing, I managed to find a competition asking illustrators to illustrate a series of love poems, and this was one of my favourites.

Myself and a friend started a book club in late 2019 and I was asked by the group to create a poster to advertise the group online and in local bookshops, this is the design below.