My Experience

I graduated from Westminster University with a first class honors

degree in illustration and visual communication and began to start working with a wide range of clients on a wide range of commissions whilst building up my professional portfolio.

During my professional practice I have worked on a vast scope of different projects for clients including; The Science Museum, Liberty

London, The Green Party, and Stroke. These have included final projects consisting of; animation, editorial illustration, branding, book cover

design, printed and web collateral, layout design, murals, portraiture, posters, 3D design amongst many others.

I won a prestigious D&AD New Blood award in 2015 for my award

winning project ‘Making the Most of Creative Struggles’ in which I used my own practice as the subject and gained industry recognition and success by doing so.

I work as a freelance illustrator, designer, painter and animator and am very comfortable in teaching traditional image making techniques, digital illustration and the Adobe suite: including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Affects and Indesign. I have built up a great bank of knowledge and skill in painting, drawing, sculpture, layout design, moving image, video editing and various approaches to illustration, all of which I am

comfortable in teaching to others due to previous experience of practice and teaching students.

I teach and provide session support for the Charity Art Box which helps Artists with learning difficulties develop their creative and life skills to gain work and confidence. As a part of this role there is an immense amount of one to one support and working with the artists who attend. This is often done as an on going process with a particular individual and so allows time to understand the personal needs and interests of the individual to support and guide their work. As a result of this one to one support many of the the artists have gone on to sell work and boost their confidence as creative professionals.

Subjects That I Teach

• Adobe Suite
• Adobe Suite - A-Level
• Fine Art
• Fine Art - A-Level
• Illustration
• Illustration - A-Level

My Qualifications

BA

First Degree honors in Illustration and Visual Communication from the University of Westminster.

During my Bachelors Degree I was heavily involved in the arts and represented the University and the Illustration and Visual Communication course numerous times to prospective students and educational authorities. It was also at this time that I was elected for three years running to represent my course at rep meetings with all members of the faculty. During this time I was also chosen to represent my year group, along with a handful other high achieving students, at the 2013 D&AD

New Blood gallery in Old Spitalfields market in which nearly all UK

universities exhibited their work along side each other to gain attention and potential work from industry professionals.

A level

Double Distinction BTEC national diploma in Art and Design from Paston college, Norfolk. I achieved 100% in marking.

English literature - B

During my A Levels I acted as course representative for new and prospective students interested in studying at Paston College.

GCSE’s

11 GCSE A* - C.

A* in Art and Design, Graphic Products, Media Studies and English Literature and Language.

My Video Introduction

Fun fact

I live on a narrow boat on the London canal system. I also also spent a summer during university working as a banjo playing wizard for the North Norfolk Maize Maze!