Recently I created a piece for Liberty's open call to design the 2027 Beauty Advent Calendar. The brief was to create a Christmas-themed interpretation of Liberty’s Tudor revival building, celebrating its heritage, eccentricity and magic while placing the store within the wider cultural landscape of London. The brief invited artists to imagine the building from all sides, front, back, sides and roof and to surround it with scenes of London that captured Liberty’s role at the heart of the...

This post walks you through the steps involved in one of my pet portrait commissions. Every commission is a bespoke, hand-painted piece, so the process may vary slightly depending on the brief, but this should give you a good idea of what to expect and hopefully demystify the journey from enquiry to finished artwork. All of my portraits are painted traditionally using Winsor & Newton Professional watercolours on hot press watercolour paper. This paper has a beautifully smooth surface that’s...

Using illustration to champion wild camel conservation in the Gobi Desert through a fundraising exhibition at the Mongolian Embassy in Washington, D.C.