About me

I'm an illustrator / graphic designer near Edinburgh. I do a combination of commissioned work and my own illustration which I sell as prints. I've illustrated picture books, large format print (for example to decorate the kids' tent at the Edinburgh Book Festival), websites and all sorts. My design work is varied, usually fairly informal and often illustrative!

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Projects

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  Yellowcraigs SwimMy print of a sea swim at Yellowcraigs beach in East Lothian, with Fidra in the background.
• Rose GardenThis illustration started life in a project for Love Music, then evolved into a print. My brief was "a pre-raphaelite celebration of nature painting but in my vector style". So this is my take on John William Waterhouse's Soul of the Rose.
• You and MeBook illustration & design for East Lothian Play Association

Work history

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illustrator & designerSelf Employed
Jan 2008Edinburgh, United KingdomFreelance
sole trader, doing illustration and design for clients, and selling prints of my own illustrations

Skills

• Illustration
• Graphic Design

Education

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MA (hons) Psychology and Linguistics 2:1Edinburgh University
Sep 1994Edinburgh, United Kingdom
may not seem relevant on the surface, but I make it useful - psychology helps me understand marketing and perception; linguistics helps me understand parsing of text, and makes me useful to my clients because I'm able to edit their text!