Welcome to my site.
I am an Edinburgh based contemporary artist and illustrator. I work mainly in watercolour and am inspired by found objects and the light and colour in Scotland.
While specialising in maps, I can produce illustrations of food, wildlife, architecture and figures.
In 2025 I am working on a new body of natural history illustrations. If you are interested in receiving occasional news as this project develops, please subscribe to my mailing list or email me directly.
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Education
University of Edinburgh, History of Art, MA Hons.
Manchester Metropolitan University. Art Foundation B-tech diploma, Fashion and Textiles.
Further education: Heatherley’s School of Art, Chelsea College of Art, British Institute Florence, Leith School of Art.
Experience
Upon graduation I spent eight years in buying and design roles.
Relocated to Edinburgh and began work as a freelance artist-illustrator.
Developed own illustrated product range and brand and ran as a business and developed a career as a freelance illustrator.
2022
Publication of fully illustrated picture book ‘David the Pizzly Bear’ by children’s author Molly Arbuthnott.
Publication of ‘The Clever Red Setter’ by young readers author Leonard Harper-Gow, including cover and chapter heading illustration.
Awards & Press
2022 Leith School of Art Landscape prize.
2022 Red ribbon in the ‘Wishing Shelf Book Awards’ for David the Pizzly Bear
2020 Town & Country Magazine ‘Drawing Inspiration: The Art of Contemporary Cartography’
Exhibitions
2023 RSW 142nd annual show, Royal Scottish Academy.
2023 Anthony Woodd Gallery. Book illustrations exhibition for author Molly Arbuthnott.
2022 Leith School of Art group exhibition ‘Connections’.
2015 McNaughton’s bookshop, exhibition of illustrations.
2015 Golden Hare bookshop exhibition of illustrations.
2016 Glass and Thompson, food illustrations exhibition.
Author Leonard Harper-Gow (Cover and chapter heading illustrations, ‘The Clever Red Setter’, 2023)
Author Molly Arthuthnott (complete children’s picture book illustration, 2022)
Author Stephen O’Rourke QC (endpapers for novel, The Crown Agent. Sandstone Press, 2019)
Lady Juliet Townsend DCVO (Large scale commemorative architectural county map, 2019)
Hakluyt & Co. (event illustration, 2019)
Nic Houldsworth Garden Design (visualisations for garden design, 2018)
Cargilfield School, Edinburgh (map for prospectus jacket & web, 2017)
Catchpenny Safari Lodges, Fife (Web map and natural history illustration, 2017)
Gordon Nicholson Kiltmaker, Edinburgh (John Muir Way illustrated map, 2015)
Garden House School, Belgravia (Illustrated school calendar, 2015)
Rossie House Investments, Edinburgh (website illustration, 2015)
Potterton Books, Belgravia (Bookmark project) 2014
Story Advertising agency, Edinburgh (visualisations, 2014)