Hello and welcome to News from a messy desk.
Hello there! I am an illustrator and News from a messy desk is my newsletter. I am a sketchbook addict and love drawing from life. I have an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art. Join me on my illustration journey and chat about design, colour, drawing from life and picturebooks.
Why subscribe?
Free subscribers get access to posts about materials, children’s illustration and books and podcasts that I’m enjoying.
Paid subscribers get two posts a month:
the Messy Desk Dispatch newsletter which features a closer look at my work and process
a new sketchbook tour each month featuring the good, the bad and the abandoned drawings.
They also get
first notification of the opening of my pop up shop
Being a paid subscriber is like being on a pencil bus where there’s a lot of chat about sketchbooks
Founding member special subscription
Receive the two monthly newsletters and this A3 Riso inspired by a sketch I made on a beach in Italy. This riso is limited edition and only available to Founding Members. It will not be sold in my shop.
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