This is just the start of my adventures in illustration in graphic design, but I felt I should just add a couple of words on how I got here.  Although I have always loved art and graphics, I was nervous to re-train and pursue it as a career. Eventually serendipity stepped in, the stars aligned, and I’m now loving every minute of creativity.

I discovered graphic design in all its glory, slightly by chance, whilst trying to edit a website  very kindly built for me by a friend, to display the handmade, personalised gifts that I have been crafting (albeit slowly and rather painfully when repeat orders often meant that I became a one-woman factory production). My amazing cousin, Melissa Ditson created the graphics and Paddy  set up the website using a content management system (CMS) so that I could edit the site, but even with the CMS, I was still bugging him constantly for more edits, and eventually I decided that I should bite the bullet and learn how to code – perhaps with a bit of graphic design knowledge thrown in too, having admired Lissa’s work so much.

So last September I enrolled on a coding course at Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning, and what started as a short course in something I thought would be useful seems to have become a passion for graphic design. I’ve followed up my first introduction into the digital world with Level 1 courses at Westminster Adult Education in web design and graphic design, and I’m definitely not ready to stop now.