A brand new museum (with a brand new brand!) opens today at Bristol Dockyards—the recently reimagined home of SS Great Britain. I had great fun illustrating their summer trail, Ships and Giggles, which promises games, adventures, challenges, and pies!
First drawing of royalty this year! It is always a pleasure to draw Elizabeth I, and I look forward to bringing colour to this draft.
I am very excited to hear that Mason has arrived at York Minster, freshly attired in dragon garb, and is ready to venture beyond its walls! Many thanks to the fantastic team there for their work in making this happen.
Mythical Creatures opens today at Wells Cathedral! I am grateful to have been part of this fantastic project: drawing maps and mythical creatures, and working with the brilliant team there. I hope the trail brings joy to many brave adventurers and guardians of the imagination, both young and old!
I’m working on some very enjoyable projects at the moment, but on Queen Victoria’s birthday it is good to remember this illustration of the young monarch, created for Westminster Abbey’s Virtual Coronation Club three years ago. I have worked with Westminster Abbey for a decade, and it has always been a great pleasure to create with them.
The Eboracum Roman Festival returns this weekend, with a series of events and activities across the city. Underneath York Minster lie the remains of an ancient Roman army barracks, and Mason Mouse is ready to enjoy some Roman-themed fun at the Cathedral throughout May half-term.
The development of a draft for my latest project with Bath Abbey. I’m having fun sketching my way through five centuries!
Building castles takes time… I draw by hand, always, with each drawing taking hours or even days to complete. I then build up layers of colour and tone, using a combination of coloured pencils and digital colours. Some finished illustrations comprise hundreds of layers!
Draft drawings from March, when I found myself somewhere in the C11th/C12th sketching for Ely Museum's forthcoming castles exhibition. It was a joy to work with them!
This week I’ve had great fun creating illustrations for Westminster Abbey’s forthcoming Parrots and Pirates activity day. In this swashbuckling adventure, families will set sail on a quest to explore the Abbey's connections with the high seas!
Lancelot Andrewes (1555 – 1626), Elizabethan and Jacobean preacher and bishop, who was nicknamed stella predicantium ("star of preachers"). Remembered for his piety and scholarship, Andrewes had a remarkable memory and was reportedly fluent in 15 modern and 6 ancient languages! This illustration was created for the Sun, Moon, Stars, and More trail at Winchester Cathedral, which visitors can explore until March 1st.
Aerospace (and superhero!) engineer Mary Jackson (1921 – 2005) was NASA's first black female engineer. In addition to her remarkable achievements in engineering and mathematics, Jackson also worked to influence the promotion of women in NASA’s science, engineering, and mathematics careers. The Washington, D.C. headquarters of NASA was renamed the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in 2021 to honour her life and work.
The Superhero Engineers have landed at SS Great Britain for some half-term fun!
Delighted to hear Tessa Campbell Fraser's Whales at Winchester Cathedral won Best Event at the Cultural Enterprises Awards. This exhibition of monumental sculptures highlighted our relationship with oceans and whales, transforming the Cathedral into an underwater themed, multisensory environment. I had wonderful fun working on Ocean Commotion, the interactive family trail that accompanied the exhibition.
Here’s Ada Lovelace with her computer algorithm, Note G, and the plan for Charles Babbage's Great Calculating Engine. Lovelace, who had a remarkably creative and mathematical mind, was one of the first people to imagine what computers could do. Working with her friend Babbage, she wrote notes describing how his “Analytical Engine” could follow instructions. Some now see this as the world’s first computer program! Superhero Engineers opens at SS Great Britain on February 14th.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was one of the most ingenious figures in engineering history, combining creativity with bold and daring ideas. His creations included the SS Great Britain - the world's first propeller-driven, iron-hulled ship. Visitors to the SS Great Britain can soon embark on a new voyage of discovery, learning about Brunel and other engineers as part of a trail that I illustrated. It was great fun to draw them all! The Superhero Engineers trail begins February 14th and will run until March 22nd.
Draft sketches and final artwork for the Guardian Angels' Chapel at Winchester Cathedral. The wonderful angels adorning the chapel's ceiling were painted nearly 800 years ago, in 1240! It was a joy to bring them to life for the Cathedral’s new Sun, Moon, Stars, and More trail.
Writer, poet and diarist Melesina Trench authored The Moonlanders (1816), one of the earliest works of science fiction. In it, she imagined angel-like creatures who lived on a green moon.
This large-scale illustration is for Sun, Moon, Stars, and More, an interactive family trail opening today at Winchester Cathedral, where Trench is buried. The trail will run until March 1st, accompanying Helios, an art installation by Luke Jerram.
In less than a week Threads Through the Bible will open in Bath. This hand-drawn trail map guiding visitors around the exhibition venues was a delight to design and illustrate! I had a lot of fun rendering the city’s beautiful streets in pencil.
Leaping into 2026 with a medieval bishop journeying across a galaxy of encaustic tiles! Bishop Godfrey de Lucy and others will form the interactive trail I illustrated to accompany Helios, a seven-metre sculpture of the Sun by artist Luke Jerram, opening at Winchester Cathedral later this month.
