Wedding season has come and gone in a flurry of flowers and parties. I love a good wedding! This is a great time to reflect and share what I do.

Arts Award booklet specially designed and illustrated (by Katie Chappell) for Berwick upon Tweed. This is a great resource for helping school children to learn about art. HOORAY FOR LEARNING!

Print day for Lizzie Finnigan’s Umbrella Bella.

Illustrations from the 48th St Gallen Symposium magazine. Illustrations by me (Katie Chappell), amazing graphic design by the team (Tulu and Brian) at Sergeant, in Zurich, Switzerland.

At last! A series of illustrations of powerful women in art and science for Newcastle University. These will be used for creating educational teaching packs for schools.

Live illustration in Gateshead tongight! (16th June)

It’s been one month since I uninstalled Instagram and Twitter, and deactivated Facebook. I also followed the ‘distraction free iPhone’ guide to taking emails off my phone and restricting Safari. Those last two though... *cue wringing of hands and nervously sweating*

Taking a break from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. An experiment.

The Cornerhouse Illustrators met up at Julia Patton's beautiful house. We had a peek at her woodshed studio, drank coffee and pored over sketchbooks, thumbnails and picture books!