Developing content for RBG Kew’s acclaimed Rare and Extinct exhibition

Cultural collage commission for Modern Salt magazine

I chose a waxwing as my latest card design to accompany my 'A is for Apples' Fox's Alphabet as they're apparently partial to apples and pears in the late autumn.

For this week's bird doodle I was still preoccupied with waxwings, and whilst it's much too early to hear a nightingale heralding the spring, I sketched one of these in homage to all of our heroic key workers in the midst of the pandemic.

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Travel the World at Kew last summer, a mid-pandemic celebration of the fact that, in spite of travel being restricted and most holidays being cancelled, you can still explore the world on an imaginative globe-trotting experience through Kew's richly diverse botanical collections.

To fill the pages of an empty lockdown diary, I've begun colouring one of the loveliest distractions that punctuates my days at the moment, trying to identify all of the different birds that we hear on our mooring.

This extremely rewarding commission for Kew and Wakehurst involved me interviewing a variety of talented botanical artists and developing activities based on their work. I also interviewed a Kew scientist and horticulturist on how invaluable collaborations with a botanical artists are to their research.

I thoroughly enjoyed writing interpretation for a Gruffalo exhibition at Kew this Autumn (originally scheduled for Spring 2020 but postponed and tweaked for Autumn of the same year because of the Covid pandemic).

The Good Fish Guide recommends that America and Mexico provide the most sustainably sourced lobsters. In fact all the lobsters on their list have pincers, so the only way we Westerners should be enjoying spiny lobsters is through art.

When you consider that a single honeybee only produces a thirteenth of a teaspoon of honey, and yet collaboratively they create gallons of this liquid-gold pickled nectar, each pollinating around 300 flowers during her three days of flight and contributing to 1-in-3 mouthfuls of the food we eat; they remind me that long journeys are made of little steps.

I’ve really enjoyed developing this paint-by-numbers group participation activity for the RBG Kew and Wakehurst Science festivals.

Shamrocks, Bells of Ireland and clover decorated the wedding stationery for a very spectacular Irish wedding this year.

Happily, some tea-towels I’ve had printed with the same design have completely sold out!