I remember being fascinated by end papers in some of my parent’s older books - not realising the marbling process behind it, nor the history of its global expansion and trade secrecy. I fell in love with the patterns, the colour combinations, and that the more I observed, the more I saw.

I loved a crayon when I was a kid, so I am really not too sure why I don’t pick them up as a grown-up… maybe because I can’t control the shading, or I get a bit funny with the texture - the crumbs. So, when a TOAST workshop popped into my inbox—highlighting the incredible poster works of Rosie Harbottle—I signed up without overthinking it.

Gelli Printing tested me. A fairly new mono-printing process without the need of a press. After attending a beautiful workshop at No.5 Workshops, I’m determined to experiment more at home. Particularly because this process didn’t come naturally!

In my recent quest to ignore perfection, I picked up my sketchbook and sat on the floor of my new lounge with all of my art materials sprawled across the floor. Embracing mess is new, but it feels very comforting, like I’ve ignored my best friend. I felt like a kid again.

Italy has always been very close to my heart and I have been lucky enough to travel a lot of it. Yet, I hadn’t been to Florence until this year.

I wasn’t expecting to love it so much. I kept walking around feeling like I had a special pair of glasses on, that I was in a graded movie — the colours were mesmerising, and the palette was an immediate comfort to me.