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I am an Illustrator, graphic designer, artist and urban sketcher based in Leeds in the UK. I’ve worked on projects for many design companies and advertising agencies across the region, as well as direct clients, designing everything from corporate identity, leaflets, posters, brochures and packaging. I’ve also worked on Point of Sale material, Direct Mail and advertising campaigns for press and TV.

I’ve always loved drawing and this led me to illustration and cartoons. I’ve bean funny on ads, leaflets, posters and greeting cards and illustrated projects as diverse as public transport and recycling. In recent years most of my work has been digital using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Discovering the Urban Sketchers community re-ignited the joy of sketching purely as a form of artistic expression, and as their manifesto states I’m ‘showing my world, one drawing at a time’. I am also the co-ordinater for Urban Sketchers Yorkshire and organise ‘sketch crawls’ across the region, where our members can meet and sketch together. I share my sketches online through Facebook, Flickr and Instagram and enjoy the feedback that I get through being part of USK as well as seeing the great work produced by this global network of artists.