💜 As a child, drawing often frustrated me. Chronic perfectionism took away the enjoyment in creation for me, but at the age of 15 I discovered anime. I never watched many cartoons growing up, so to watch moving images done so beautifully, really re-sparked that joy I once had about creating artwork; for the last 11 years I’ve continued to create illustrations on a regular basis and I’ve developed a style unique to me.

What started as a hobby, became a passion in college where I studied Digital Art. However, I took a very different route in my last year of college and I started working as a healthcare assistant / care-worker and I felt that I’d found my calling. I loved my job and I wanted to work my way up to maybe becoming a paramedic one day. My artwork took a back-seat in my life for a few years, although I never completely stopped.

However, I became diagnosed with chronic pain at the beginning of 2020 and I had to move on from the idea of working in such a physically-demanding job. I was deemed unfit for work in 2020, a month before our first lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Over the last 4 years I’ve been diagnosed with  more chronic illnesses, and I’m still on my medical journey. However, during the lockdowns I started drawing daily again while sitting under a tree in my communal gardens so I could escape the confines of my flat.

I made the massive step to go to university and I’m finishing my first year of my Illustration BA (Hons) degree. I’m going to continue the rest of my degree through distance-learning and I one day hope to have a career in illustration.

My autism and ADHD hasn’t always been easy to live with and are some of the reasons I’ve struggled so much in main-stream education. But I feel like my neurodiversity enables me to become so absorbed in my artwork, I’m always pushing for better and I love looking for and creating detail.

I’ve worked on multiple commissions over the years, including logo-designs, illustrations, tattoos, emotes and book covers. I’m always open for a discussion for any commissions, requests or collaborations. 💜

💜 I’m also hoping to start a blog soon and I’m currently working on my first ever short comic-book. 💜