Messy Desk Dispatch: The Pac-Man part of my process
Consuming culture: filling up my brain with things that inspire me in the summer holidays.
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Sketchbook Tour: Getting ready for the Three Materials Challenge
Choosing palettes, getting started and picking themes
Three Materials Challenge 2026: Spend a week with your sketchbook
Everything you need to know about the Three Materials Challenge
Sketchbook Tour: Notes on a theme
Choosing a theme for a sketchbook to stay creative and help ideas flow.
Messy Desk Dispatch: Matisse 1941 - 1954
6 key things I learned from the exhibition at Grand Palais in Paris
Sketchbook Tour: Collage brights, cut outs and line
Playing with paper and capturing the everyday.
Messy Desk Dispatch: Olle Eksell
Discovering the work of this Swedish graphic designer and the joy of colour, line and shape.
Inspiring books I bought in Bologna
So many books. Luckily I left a lot of room in my suitcase...
Sketchbook Tour: Bologna 2026
Design, shape, books books books, and a wall of parmesan.
Sketchbook ready
Prepping pages, choosing palettes and looking for inspiration
Sketchbook Tour: France
Why draw on holiday? Capturing a trip and giving myself a portal to go back there when I revisit my sketchbook.