
Summer Update & 100 Days of drawing
Summer seems to have come and gone in record time this year. Usually the summer months are fairly quiet for client work, but throughout August and September, I’ve had the busiest summer for…
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New Project – #100DaysOfDrawing
A month or so ago, a writer friend of mine started a 100 Days of Writing project. She pledged to write, no matter what, each day for 100 days and post on social…
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Book Review – The Night Flower by Lara Hawthorne
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I will be writing a series of book reviews, focussing primarily on non fiction books. The aim of these reviews is to take an in…
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Small update and… NEW STUDIO!
I’ve been a little quiet on here lately. Since Lockdown has started to ease, and it has felt a little safer to be out in the world once more, life has become a…
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Non-Fiction Nerdary… Why I love non fiction
Over the past few years, my collection of children’s books has grown a little out of hand, especially when it comes to children’s non-fiction. There have been so many beautiful examples published recently,…
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Bologna Book Fair 2020… (Reflections on 2019)
It’s now been a year since I finished the wonderful MA course at Cambridge school of art. And what a year it’s been. It’s not been quite the year any of us had…
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Folktale Week 2020
November usually means the arrival of the annual #folktaleweek challenge over on Instagram. If you’re not already familiar with it, Folktale week is a week long illustration challenge, where participants are given 7x…
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Norwich Tapestry Design – Case study
Norwich Castle is an iconic landmark on the city’s skyline, but it is also one of Europes most important early Medieval castles. ‘A Royal Palace Reborn’ is an exciting, Lottery funded project that…
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Looking back at 2020 (& The Carmelite Prize)
2020 is a year no-one saw coming. It was a year we all had to learn to adapt to new ways of working, communicating and living out our lives. No one foresaw masks,…
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Who am I?
Hello lovely reader! So… here it is, my awkward first blog post! I shall start by introducing myself. I am Fiona, a freelance illustrator based in Norwich UK along with my husband, dog…
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About Me
Hi, I’m Fiona, an illustrator from Norwich, UK. I’ve worked as a freelance illustrator for the past 9 years. For 5 years before that, I was a graphic designer. I’m now busy carving out a new niche as a children’s book illustrator.
In 2020 I graduated from the Children’s book Illustration MA at Cambridge School of Art, and am very excited about continuing along this pathway.