welcome to my creative art journal
A place for the things I'm making, thinking about and experimenting with.
I'm not entirely sure what this journal will become - and that's probably a good thing.
A few years ago I discovered surface pattern design almost by accident. Since then I've learned a lot, changed direction more than once and discovered that what interests me most isn't necessarily the finished design, but everything that happens along the way.
These days I'm particularly drawn to the conversation between digital and handmade - creating something on screen and then seeing what happens when I translate it into a stamp, ink and paper.
Sometimes the result is what I imagined. Sometimes it really isn't. Both are interesting.
So this is where I'm going to keep some of those experiments and discoveries. There'll be prints, patterns, digital work, sketches, things I'm trying for the first time and probably the occasional happy accident.
It's not a tutorial site and it's not a carefully planned journey - it's simply my creative journal.
And you're very welcome to have a look around!
From the archive
I wrote this when I was first discovering surface pattern design and imagining where it might take me. A lot has changed since then, but I'm keeping this here because it's part of the story.