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This summer I had the pleasure of being involved in a great project. I was asked by entrepreneur Tina Bernstein and designer Mike Abrahams to illustrate a map slash self help guide on how to find your perfect pet. The map is part of a series of guides that aim to help people with everyday dilemmas (big and small), but in a very visual way...

I had hope time would pass more slowly on Achill Island, but unfortunately this hasn't been the case. On the contrary, time has been flying by! Today is our last day at the Folly. My mother and I have spent our days painting and drawing on various locations on the island, taking photographs, and keeping the stoves burning...

When my mum came to visit me in London earlier this year we spent a few very enjoyable days drawing together. We both loved it so much, we said to each other 'we should do this more often!'. My mum came up with the idea of going on an artist retreat and found this cottage on the West coast of Ireland, owned by a group of artists from Amsterdam...

Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of joining a two-colour riso print workshop at Ditto Press, an independent publisher and printer here in East London that specializes in risograhphs. A risograph printer is a nifty machine, manufactured by Riso, that looks like a photocopier and works like an automatic screen printer...

A desk space has become available at my studio, right next to me! I'm on the third floor of The Printhouse, part of Bootstrap Company, a social enterprise founded in 1977 that supports charities and small creative businesses. It's a big open plan office in the heart of Dalston, East London, with friendly people working in design, music, film and events.

When I was young my mother would always be painting and drawing. She would draw my brother and I while we were watching television, or she'd draw the scenery from the car while my dad drove us towards our holiday destination. She would doodle while being on the phone and always keep a sketchbook...

I recently got commissioned to make some drawings of typical Dutch dishes for a pop-up restaurant in Toronto, Canada. Every Sunday afternoon from 1 till 6 pm Dutchman Justin and his Canadian fiancé Alison host a 'borrel' in bar The Ossington on Ossinton Avenue. 'Borrel' is the Dutch word for having drinks. A 'borrel' is always 'gezellig'...

This year my boyfriend and I, instead of putting ourselves through the hellish experience called Christmas shopping, thought we'd give our families home made gifts. We decided to make it a collaborative effort. So my better half asked a befriended jazz musician to record a few jazz tunes in our living room, while I drew them, and a few items from our interior, for the cd cover...

Yay, it's officially out today: the first full length album by the wonderful Miss Maud's Folly! With artwork by yours truly. Available physically from the band's website and digitally via iTunes...

I've had a few requests for prints of these birds I did in ink and Ecoline, and now I got some beautiful giclée prints made. They're printed on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle German Etching paper, which has a fine texture, like watercolour paper...