Seal  - Early Years workshop with the  Foundling museum
Seal - Early Years workshop with the Foundling museum

Inspired by the work of Peter Klasen

Children made their own animal illustration collage

Children as story tellers
Children as story tellers

Workshop led at Stebon Primary school with Bow Arts, part of a residency for a permanent installation.

I helped the children illustrate stories they had written to create some content for the final installation.

Learning book cover design and bookbinding.

“A story about us” - year 6

Surrealist collage to drawing
Surrealist collage to drawing

Drawing exercise with year 3 (7/8years old)

CPD (continuous Professional Development) for early years teachers
CPD (continuous Professional Development) for early years teachers

Sharing my experience and giving activity ideas to Early Years teachers to be used in the classroom

Illustration inspired by Sarah Cheveau "Nuit de chance" made by year 4 pupils (8/9 years old)
Illustration inspired by Sarah Cheveau "Nuit de chance" made by year 4 pupils (8/9 years old)

During my artist residency at Thornhill Primary School, London

Creating textures with Year 3 (7/8year old)
Creating textures with Year 3 (7/8year old)

Feeling and drawing natural objects

Leaving a trace in a sketchbook

Collage -  Working with archival material about East London and group of elderly with dementia
Collage - Working with archival material about East London and group of elderly with dementia

Over the course of 9 months I worked with a group of elderly people diagnosed with dementia on a project inspired by pictures and archives of their home roots. A series of artwork was made as well as a podcast series.

Cyanotype with a people with dementia
Cyanotype with a people with dementia

Over the course of 9 months I worked with a group of elderly people diagnosed with dementia on a project inspired by pictures and archives of their home roots. A series of artwork was made as well as a podcast series.

Archival cyanotype with people with dementia
Archival cyanotype with people with dementia

Over the course of 9 months I worked with a group of elderly people diagnosed with dementia on a project inspired by pictures and archives of their home roots. A series of artwork was made as well as a podcast series.

Painting inspired by Georgia O'Keefe by year 3 pupils (7/8years old)
Painting inspired by Georgia O'Keefe by year 3 pupils (7/8years old)

During a school residency at Wellington Primary School in Bow.

Year 3 pupils looked at tropical plants, children learn how to use a viewfinder, to enlarge a picture.

Colour mixing to create tints and tones of a colour were created to show the subtlety of the light on the plants.

Mono printing with year 1 (5/6 years old)
Mono printing with year 1 (5/6 years old)

block printing on the theme of the "home" during my residency at Thornhill Primary

Book Making with year 5 (10/11 years old) during a school residency in Camden
Book Making with year 5 (10/11 years old) during a school residency in Camden

Year pupils created and planned an illustrated narrative about the effect of global warming on Antartica and its population.

Laperello book with hard covers

Collage illustrations using paint, ink and pastels

Illustration workshop at Regent High School with The Poetry Society and Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Illustration workshop at Regent High School with The Poetry Society and Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

A evening workshop with year 9 (16/17years old) making illustrations for the poems they had written with The Poetry Society.

In partnership with the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Pop Up Illustration
Pop Up Illustration

Workshop led at The House of Illustration

Learning some pop up and book making techniques to illustrate the life cycle of humans.

Year 6

Project for a school library mural - work in progress photo
Project for a school library mural - work in progress photo

Working with a year 6 group (11/12 years old) on creating a mural for their school library

Yinka Shonibare inspired art work made by year 4 (8/9years old)
Yinka Shonibare inspired art work made by year 4 (8/9years old)

Created by year 4 during an Artist's residency at Wellington Primary School, Bow.

Pre-schoolers project
Pre-schoolers project

Project led during a 4 weeks period in an East London nursery

Children explored art through mark making and sensorial activities to make illustration of early years topics such as food types, numbers and animals

Illustration workshop - Character Design, inspired by Eric Carle techniques
Illustration workshop - Character Design, inspired by Eric Carle techniques

Illustration led at the House Of Illustration with a year 1 class

The Children illustrated an animal alphabet 

A Laidee Bert  

Character Design, inspired by the BFG using caricature techniques
Character Design, inspired by the BFG using caricature techniques

Led at the House Of Illustration, Year 4 pupils learnt how to develop a character exaggerating features like in caricature illustration.

The BFG, Year 4

Ink, watercolour

Character Design inspired by the BFG using caricature style
Character Design inspired by the BFG using caricature style

Led at the House Of Illustration, Year 4 pupils learnt how to develop a character exaggerating features like in caricature illustration.

A monster whizpopping, Year 4

Ink, watercolour

One week residency at Saint George The Martyr Primary school
One week residency at Saint George The Martyr Primary school

As part of the school literacy week, I delivered a series of workshops based on Where The Wild Things Are with all the school classes.

The Wild Things, Set Design using dough, Year 3

 

Children as story tellers
Children as story tellers

Final piece for Stebon Primary school residency with Bow Arts

I helped the children illustrate stories they had written to create some content for the final installation; a portable cabinet that could be used for various exhibition and to share resources.

The illustrations generated during the workshops were then edited and routed on to the cabinet walls. Cabinet by Milly Peck and Finn Thomson.

Children as story tellers
Children as story tellers

Workshop led at Stebon Primary school with Bow Arts, part of a residency for a permanent installation.

I helped the children illustrate stories they had written to create some content for the final installation.

Learning sequences, designing a page spread and watercolour techniques.

The Lion and the cat” - year 3

Making vessels with people with dementia visiting artist in partnership with Equal Arts
Making vessels with people with dementia visiting artist in partnership with Equal Arts

As part of an archival project on the East End of London, care home residents with dementia looked at archive photographs of East London and visited the museum of London docklands.

After which they created a series of vessels inspired by some of the objects found in the museum. The vessel being a recipient, to hold and a symbol of the time we gathered with a cup of tea. They were decorated with poem they wrote and their own silhouette.

The Affordable Art Fair Workshop at Battersea
The Affordable Art Fair Workshop at Battersea

Family workshop on the theme Fly away with me

We created creatures and machines that fly.

Cardboard, pegs, paper, paint, felt tip pens.

Workshop at the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea
Workshop at the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea

Family workshop on the theme Fly away with me

We created creatures and machines that fly.

Cardboard, pegs, paper, paint, felt tip pens.

Workshop at the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea
Workshop at the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea

Family workshop on the theme Fly away with me

We created creatures and machines that fly.

Cardboard, pegs, paper, paint, felt tip pens.

Puppet Making at Craft Central
Puppet Making at Craft Central

Weekend puppet making workshop based on Alice In Wonderland

The Mad Hatter

 

Puppet Making Workshop at Craft Central
Puppet Making Workshop at Craft Central

Weekend puppet making workshop based on Alice in Wonderland 

The Rabbit

One week residency at Saint George The Martyr primary school
One week residency at Saint George The Martyr primary school

As part of the school literacy week, I delivered a series of workshops based on Where The Wild Things Are with all the school classes.

Max, paper collage, reception class

One week residency at Saint George The Martyr primary school
One week residency at Saint George The Martyr primary school

As part of the school literacy week, I delivered a series of workshops based on Where The Wild Things Are with all the school classes.

The Wild Things, Totem Poles, Year 1

Character Design inspired by Jacobean era portraits
Character Design inspired by Jacobean era portraits

Led at the House Of Illustration, the students illustrated different trades that wouldn't usually be portrayed during the Jacobean period. 

A Shoemaker, collage, SEN class

 

Bookmaking and illustration inspired by Ladybird design
Bookmaking and illustration inspired by Ladybird design

A family workshop where the children made concertina books on the theme of their dream holiday, using imagery from the 1940's and 1950's, working with the Ladybird book size.

A camping holiday, collage 

Product Design with Year 3 (7/8years old)  during an artist residency in a primary school in Old street
Product Design with Year 3 (7/8years old) during an artist residency in a primary school in Old street

Year 3 pupils created packaging that will show fair-trade ethos using a logo they created and mono printed onto the packaging.

Workshop at The Affordable Art Fair Battersea
Workshop at The Affordable Art Fair Battersea

Family Workshop on the Theme of "Hop Skip and Jump"

We made some mobiles representing different figure jumping skipping or hopping 

Wire, paper

Character Design "Goodies and Baddies"
Character Design "Goodies and Baddies"

Workshop led at the House of Illustration

Learning about Q.Blake techniques to create “Goodies and Baddies”

Year 1

Yayoi Kusama inspired painting with year 3 (7/8years old)
Yayoi Kusama inspired painting with year 3 (7/8years old)

Paintiings made during residency at Wellington Primary, Bow

Yayoi Kusama sculptures by year 3 pupils (7/8years old)  during artist residency at Wellington Primary
Yayoi Kusama sculptures by year 3 pupils (7/8years old) during artist residency at Wellington Primary

Yayoi Lusaka inspired sculptures

Creatures of the sea

Visiting artist with the House of Illustration - 3 day project in Tudor Belsize park
Visiting artist with the House of Illustration - 3 day project in Tudor Belsize park

Map making

Workshop led at Saint Christopher Primary School

Learning how to create a map. Learning about creating symbols, compass, cartouche, keys and symbols & practise of calligraphy

Learning about the area the pupils live in during the Tudors

Year 4

Visiting Visiting artist with the House of Illustration - 3 day project in Tudor Belsize park
Visiting Visiting artist with the House of Illustration - 3 day project in Tudor Belsize park

Illustrating jobs during the Tudors

Workshop led at Saint Christopher Primary School

Learning about Tudors and the different jobs people were doing at the time.

We portrayed the people that weren’t necessarily portrayed then.

Using watercolour and ink. Also practised calligraphy for the captions.

Year 4

Seal  - Early Years workshop with the  Foundling museum
Children as story tellers
Surrealist collage to drawing
CPD (continuous Professional Development) for early years teachers
Illustration inspired by Sarah Cheveau "Nuit de chance" made by year 4 pupils (8/9 years old)
Creating textures with Year 3 (7/8year old)
Collage -  Working with archival material about East London and group of elderly with dementia
Cyanotype with a people with dementia
Archival cyanotype with people with dementia
Painting inspired by Georgia O'Keefe by year 3 pupils (7/8years old)
Mono printing with year 1 (5/6 years old)
Book Making with year 5 (10/11 years old) during a school residency in Camden
Illustration workshop at Regent High School with The Poetry Society and Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Pop Up Illustration
Project for a school library mural - work in progress photo
Yinka Shonibare inspired art work made by year 4 (8/9years old)
Pre-schoolers project
Illustration workshop - Character Design, inspired by Eric Carle techniques
Character Design, inspired by the BFG using caricature techniques
Character Design inspired by the BFG using caricature style
One week residency at Saint George The Martyr Primary school
Children as story tellers
Children as story tellers
Making vessels with people with dementia visiting artist in partnership with Equal Arts
The Affordable Art Fair Workshop at Battersea
Workshop at the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea
Workshop at the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea
Puppet Making at Craft Central
Puppet Making Workshop at Craft Central
One week residency at Saint George The Martyr primary school
One week residency at Saint George The Martyr primary school
Character Design inspired by Jacobean era portraits
Bookmaking and illustration inspired by Ladybird design
Product Design with Year 3 (7/8years old)  during an artist residency in a primary school in Old street
Workshop at The Affordable Art Fair Battersea
Character Design "Goodies and Baddies"
Yayoi Kusama inspired painting with year 3 (7/8years old)
Yayoi Kusama sculptures by year 3 pupils (7/8years old)  during artist residency at Wellington Primary
Visiting artist with the House of Illustration - 3 day project in Tudor Belsize park
Visiting Visiting artist with the House of Illustration - 3 day project in Tudor Belsize park
Seal - Early Years workshop with the Foundling museum

Inspired by the work of Peter Klasen

Children made their own animal illustration collage

Children as story tellers

Workshop led at Stebon Primary school with Bow Arts, part of a residency for a permanent installation.

I helped the children illustrate stories they had written to create some content for the final installation.

Learning book cover design and bookbinding.

“A story about us” - year 6

Surrealist collage to drawing

Drawing exercise with year 3 (7/8years old)

CPD (continuous Professional Development) for early years teachers

Sharing my experience and giving activity ideas to Early Years teachers to be used in the classroom

Illustration inspired by Sarah Cheveau "Nuit de chance" made by year 4 pupils (8/9 years old)

During my artist residency at Thornhill Primary School, London

Creating textures with Year 3 (7/8year old)

Feeling and drawing natural objects

Leaving a trace in a sketchbook

Collage - Working with archival material about East London and group of elderly with dementia

Over the course of 9 months I worked with a group of elderly people diagnosed with dementia on a project inspired by pictures and archives of their home roots. A series of artwork was made as well as a podcast series.

Cyanotype with a people with dementia

Over the course of 9 months I worked with a group of elderly people diagnosed with dementia on a project inspired by pictures and archives of their home roots. A series of artwork was made as well as a podcast series.

Archival cyanotype with people with dementia

Over the course of 9 months I worked with a group of elderly people diagnosed with dementia on a project inspired by pictures and archives of their home roots. A series of artwork was made as well as a podcast series.

Painting inspired by Georgia O'Keefe by year 3 pupils (7/8years old)

During a school residency at Wellington Primary School in Bow.

Year 3 pupils looked at tropical plants, children learn how to use a viewfinder, to enlarge a picture.

Colour mixing to create tints and tones of a colour were created to show the subtlety of the light on the plants.

Mono printing with year 1 (5/6 years old)

block printing on the theme of the "home" during my residency at Thornhill Primary

Book Making with year 5 (10/11 years old) during a school residency in Camden

Year pupils created and planned an illustrated narrative about the effect of global warming on Antartica and its population.

Laperello book with hard covers

Collage illustrations using paint, ink and pastels

Illustration workshop at Regent High School with The Poetry Society and Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

A evening workshop with year 9 (16/17years old) making illustrations for the poems they had written with The Poetry Society.

In partnership with the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Pop Up Illustration

Workshop led at The House of Illustration

Learning some pop up and book making techniques to illustrate the life cycle of humans.

Year 6

Project for a school library mural - work in progress photo

Working with a year 6 group (11/12 years old) on creating a mural for their school library

Yinka Shonibare inspired art work made by year 4 (8/9years old)

Created by year 4 during an Artist's residency at Wellington Primary School, Bow.

Pre-schoolers project

Project led during a 4 weeks period in an East London nursery

Children explored art through mark making and sensorial activities to make illustration of early years topics such as food types, numbers and animals

Illustration workshop - Character Design, inspired by Eric Carle techniques

Illustration led at the House Of Illustration with a year 1 class

The Children illustrated an animal alphabet 

A Laidee Bert  

Character Design, inspired by the BFG using caricature techniques

Led at the House Of Illustration, Year 4 pupils learnt how to develop a character exaggerating features like in caricature illustration.

The BFG, Year 4

Ink, watercolour

Character Design inspired by the BFG using caricature style

Led at the House Of Illustration, Year 4 pupils learnt how to develop a character exaggerating features like in caricature illustration.

A monster whizpopping, Year 4

Ink, watercolour

One week residency at Saint George The Martyr Primary school

As part of the school literacy week, I delivered a series of workshops based on Where The Wild Things Are with all the school classes.

The Wild Things, Set Design using dough, Year 3

 

Children as story tellers

Final piece for Stebon Primary school residency with Bow Arts

I helped the children illustrate stories they had written to create some content for the final installation; a portable cabinet that could be used for various exhibition and to share resources.

The illustrations generated during the workshops were then edited and routed on to the cabinet walls. Cabinet by Milly Peck and Finn Thomson.

Children as story tellers

Workshop led at Stebon Primary school with Bow Arts, part of a residency for a permanent installation.

I helped the children illustrate stories they had written to create some content for the final installation.

Learning sequences, designing a page spread and watercolour techniques.

The Lion and the cat” - year 3

Making vessels with people with dementia visiting artist in partnership with Equal Arts

As part of an archival project on the East End of London, care home residents with dementia looked at archive photographs of East London and visited the museum of London docklands.

After which they created a series of vessels inspired by some of the objects found in the museum. The vessel being a recipient, to hold and a symbol of the time we gathered with a cup of tea. They were decorated with poem they wrote and their own silhouette.

The Affordable Art Fair Workshop at Battersea

Family workshop on the theme Fly away with me

We created creatures and machines that fly.

Cardboard, pegs, paper, paint, felt tip pens.

Workshop at the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea

Family workshop on the theme Fly away with me

We created creatures and machines that fly.

Cardboard, pegs, paper, paint, felt tip pens.

Workshop at the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea

Family workshop on the theme Fly away with me

We created creatures and machines that fly.

Cardboard, pegs, paper, paint, felt tip pens.

Puppet Making at Craft Central

Weekend puppet making workshop based on Alice In Wonderland

The Mad Hatter

 

Puppet Making Workshop at Craft Central

Weekend puppet making workshop based on Alice in Wonderland 

The Rabbit

One week residency at Saint George The Martyr primary school

As part of the school literacy week, I delivered a series of workshops based on Where The Wild Things Are with all the school classes.

Max, paper collage, reception class

One week residency at Saint George The Martyr primary school

As part of the school literacy week, I delivered a series of workshops based on Where The Wild Things Are with all the school classes.

The Wild Things, Totem Poles, Year 1

Character Design inspired by Jacobean era portraits

Led at the House Of Illustration, the students illustrated different trades that wouldn't usually be portrayed during the Jacobean period. 

A Shoemaker, collage, SEN class

 

Bookmaking and illustration inspired by Ladybird design

A family workshop where the children made concertina books on the theme of their dream holiday, using imagery from the 1940's and 1950's, working with the Ladybird book size.

A camping holiday, collage 

Product Design with Year 3 (7/8years old) during an artist residency in a primary school in Old street

Year 3 pupils created packaging that will show fair-trade ethos using a logo they created and mono printed onto the packaging.

Workshop at The Affordable Art Fair Battersea

Family Workshop on the Theme of "Hop Skip and Jump"

We made some mobiles representing different figure jumping skipping or hopping 

Wire, paper

Character Design "Goodies and Baddies"

Workshop led at the House of Illustration

Learning about Q.Blake techniques to create “Goodies and Baddies”

Year 1

Yayoi Kusama inspired painting with year 3 (7/8years old)

Paintiings made during residency at Wellington Primary, Bow

Yayoi Kusama sculptures by year 3 pupils (7/8years old) during artist residency at Wellington Primary

Yayoi Lusaka inspired sculptures

Creatures of the sea

Visiting artist with the House of Illustration - 3 day project in Tudor Belsize park

Map making

Workshop led at Saint Christopher Primary School

Learning how to create a map. Learning about creating symbols, compass, cartouche, keys and symbols & practise of calligraphy

Learning about the area the pupils live in during the Tudors

Year 4

Visiting Visiting artist with the House of Illustration - 3 day project in Tudor Belsize park

Illustrating jobs during the Tudors

Workshop led at Saint Christopher Primary School

Learning about Tudors and the different jobs people were doing at the time.

We portrayed the people that weren’t necessarily portrayed then.

Using watercolour and ink. Also practised calligraphy for the captions.

Year 4

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