I've always wanted to create books, all the way back since I was a fresh-faced teenager. But back then instead of illustrating them I used to spend hours filling notebooks with poetry and short stories.
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I studied English Literature at University and got a swanky First Class BA (Hons) degree (and even an MA in in Literature Studies!) from the wonderful York St John University. I have a lot to thank them for, particularly my personal tutor Roger Clark who always encouraged my thoughts and ideas and always brought out my very best.
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In the meantime I was always being arty and creative and eventually I realised that this is where I wanted to lay my hat. In around 2013 I started picking up a pencil again to give my illustration muscles a dusting off and I haven't looked back since.
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I set up my own indie-business in 2017 called Embers and Ink selling my own illustrated products.
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In 2020 I decided to finally put pencil to paper and pin down that children's picture book idea that had been floating around my head for far too long. A rhyming children's picture book all about a special cat called Dave: our cat called Dave in fact!
We adopted Dave in 2014 from the cat shelter and knew that he was going to be a star. Now children all across the globe know his name.
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I'm currently working through all the other picture book ideas that have started floating around my head, and I'm here for it!
