I have been selling original drawings since 1987. My fascination for industrial design started even earlier. I remember visiting my Dad's engineering workshop when I was 6 years old. Ignoring the razor sharp edging and gathering bags full of steel swarf because I liked the colour/thought it looked like curly hair (1970s)! 20 years later I was still picking up engine parts and enthusing about how a lorry piston looked

like a cool ashtray (1990s)! I still have that piston ashtray, but it's more of a door stop these days. 

Despite this early leaning towards a career in engineering, my first 'proper job' was working as a pressroom cleaner at the DET

(Derby Evening Telegraph). Just 1 month in to my trial period I was given a full time role as a platemaker. The first female to be employed

at the DET in it's 30 year history. My work is still influenced by how the CMYK colour separations on the plates looked. 

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By 2007, digital technology was killing print. So I enrolled as a mature student on the new Visual Communications MDes at the University of Derby (UoD). Having left school in 1990 with just an art and English GCSE to my name, I wasn't expecting the effect of learning to be so life changing. Creative thinking is a skill, a career, a talent. Not a day dream or oddness that children of the 1970s were told.

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After setting up as a freelance graphic designer in 2011, I've been lucky enough to win projects for the NHS, British Telecom and the UoD.