welcome to my world

My fashion illustration journey began with a global childhood.  As I moved from place to place, I developed a fascination of life and style.  These formative nomadic travels ignited an intense curiosity of people and their uniquely personal ways.  The unrooted-ness made me an outside observer, soaking up the hustle and bustle around me.  I discovered everyone had their own story and I wanted to know it.  Forever at the heart of my intrigue was my love of how people looked, what they wore and their sartorial choices. 

It was at boarding school in the English countryside where my talent for drawing was spotted and nurtured.  The rest is history. 

Art schools in London and New York beckoned where found a wonderful sense of belonging in the design world.  These instrumental years led me down various creatives paths until one Monday when I enrolled in a fashion illustration class at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. I will forever remember that September day in 2007 and the light filled, airy studio crammed with easels, reams of white paper and a beautiful fashion model ready to pose for the class to draw.  On that Monday I met my future.  I was to become a fashion illustrator. 

While living in the endlessly inspiring Manhattan I developed a portfolio of fashion illustrations which I tentatively showed to industry professionals both sides of the Atlantic.  During this time I worked in different areas of the fashion world - design, styling, fashion journalism and trend forecasting. To my great honour my work was overwhelmingly well received and the foundations of my career were laid.  

Within a short time the client demand for fashion illustrations outweighed the time I had to illustrate, so out went working for various fashion brands and I made the bold leap to establish my own studio, which is where you find me now.  

It’s here I spend my days, immersed in a world filled with luxury, fashion, design and art.  I’m forever endlessly grateful that i’ve somehow totally lucked out and captured the career of my dreams. 

Fashion illustration is a perfect hybrid of my fascination of people and my unadulterated adoration of art and style. My work ties together the threads of my life experiences by allowing me to study people and capture a moment in their lives while giving it an sophisticated, stylish, elegant and aspirational twist.