Once a month, I volunteer as a Wildlife Watch Leader for the Scottish Wildlife Trust running outdoor, nature-based activities for children aged 5-9. I had the fun task of creating bespoke illustrations and graphic design to advertise our group, examples of which can be seen below.

I was commissioned by Page\Park architecture practice to help design the ceramic cladding of Glencairn House Museum and Children’s Library in Dumbarton. I spent time researching the museum collection and the surrounding location, to design the colour palette and texture profile of the ceramics, before collaborating with the ceramics team, Darwen Terracotta, who brought these designs to life. The building is due to be complete in 2025.

In 2025, I was commissioned by LA based Interior Architecture and Decoration company, Warkentin Associates, to create two murals for a community coworking space in Tribeca, New York that provides montessori inspired childcare.

I was commissioned by BBC ALBA to create a series of illustrations and maps for a documentary series focusing on famous gardens across the UK. The series first aired June 2024.

In 2024 I was commissioned by the BBC to create an image for their BBC Stories series. The image accompanied a story written by Anna Stewart titled ‘A Day Oot Wi Dad’.

I was commissioned by Merchiston Castle School to create a series of illustrations and six animations to promote the launch of their new outdoor co-ed nursery, The Forest School. The illustrations were created in 2022 and used across a variety of different marketing materials. I then partnered with production company, Daysix, to create the animations for which I created the storyboard and illustrations.

View examples of one of the animations produced here and here.

In 2022, I was commissioned by Bethany Christian Trust’ to create a series of illustrations for their ‘Buy a Bed’ and ‘Beyond a Bed’ campaigns, which aimed to support homeless people across Scotland over the winter period. The illustrations were used across promotional materials such as postcards, letters, and social media.

Illustration commissioned by the Scottish Book Trust for their 2021 Bookbug Campaign titled ‘the big splash’.

Series of editorial illustrations commissioned for Fare magazine in 2019 to accompany an article titled ‘The Trip to Troon’.

I was commissioned by Creative Carbon Scotland and the University of Edinburgh to work on the research project called ‘Wrack Lines’. The project tracked the travel routes and carbon emissions of professional musicians Jo Mango, Louis Abbott, Rachel Sermanni, RM Hubbert, and the Pictish Trail. I took the collected data and created infographics tracking their emissions and then created graphic, cut-out ‘maps’ representing each of their journeys. We then used these shapes to create album artwork for the project and projected the images during their musical performances at Celtic Connections in 2016. As well as creating the artwork, I also created promotional materials to publicise the concert.

Banner designs for ‘When Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday: Sustainability in Song’ created using painted fabric for the University of the West of Scotland and the Arts & Humanities Research Council.

Below are some word/image experiments. ‘A Complex View’ (top_ was published in the anthology Tip Tap Flat by Freight Books in 2012. ‘Loch Awe’ (bottom) was published by CRE Magazine in 2015.

Album artwork created for Jo Mango (2019) and The Great Albatross, (2017).