Illustration

Breathing life into dreams…

I make whimsical illustrations with a touch of poetry, inspired by nature, books, and folklore.

My biggest love is illustrating books. In my personal work, I’m drawn to fantasy worlds with a spirit of “play.” In fact, I could play all day, every day with ink, watercolor, and colored pencils. But I’m constantly experimenting with other media, including foraged leaves, oil pastels, clay, and digital art.

The story of bluegrey illustrations

I often draw a wanderer on a journey, walking through dream worlds or lost in the pages of a book.

Finding my way back to art was also a kind of journey. When I was little, I wanted to grow up to be “someone who draws.” Though it’s been a winding path, I finally picked up a sketchbook again sometime around 2019 as a way of coping with academic stress. And now it’s become a more significant part of my life than I could have ever hoped for. Always curious to explore new ways of expression, I value process over product in my everyday practice.

I have created illustrations of classic books for Audrey, an audiobook app fostering a bibliophile community (including The Woodlanders, Jane Eyre, and Villette). My art and photography have been featured in Cut+Paste Magazine (in Issue 06: Black & White, Issue 09: Woodland, and Issue 10: Night Light), and The Mays Anthology.

My ongoing series include vignettes of the wandering herbologist, Altair the Fox, and 100 Creatures from Folklore.

Would you like to collaborate with me? Please get in touch!

Give me a little boost

You can get prints of my work from my shop on INPRNT. Downloadable prints, free coloring pages, and free wallpapers are available on Ko-Fi. (Let me know if there’s a particular illustration you’d like to order.) Any support is deeply appreciated—it’s what keeps me going!

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“David left his bed and carefully approached the window. Something curled over his bare foot, and he raised it in shock. It was a tendril of ivy. There were shoots of it along the inner wall, and green fingers extended over the wardrobe and the carpet and the chest of drawers.”

“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”

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Painting outside — featuring Mole the weekend artist, Bird who likes to be the center of attention, and my friend the hedera ivy 🌿

“The leaves are changing; I feel poetry in the air.”

Lost is the hour spent walking in the strange woods, rapt in the mysteries it hides in its shadows and lights...

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

– Maya Angelou