The new Dundee case was unveiled last month in The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum – and two of my wee creations are in there! The enamel pin I designed to help us fundraise for Discovery Walk and the bottle that I created for Law Brewing Co ‘s Dundee Cake Ale are now part…
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Wooden Diorama Mural for Roxburghe House, Dundee
We unveiled the giant wooden diorama mural that I created for Roxburghe House on Friday. It was inspired by patients, staff and the beautiful surroundings, including Balgay Park, Dundee – what a brilliant day! Creating the mural for Roxburghe House has been such a pleasure and a huge honour. The fantastic patients and staff have…
Behind The Scenes of Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail – Sneak Peeks, Painting, Hard Work & Fun Stuff!
It’s August 2019 and Oor Wullie is back in my life again in a big way. He’s not just taken over Dundee again, he’s conquered the whole of Scotland! Yup, Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail has gone national – with 200 large hand painted sculptures to find, 100s of wee ones and for not just…
Designing A Gift Range For Abertay University
Delighted to work with Abertay University to produce a gift range for them based on my ‘Secret Garden’ illustration. I graduated from Abertay and couldn’t be prouder to design these pieces for them. This is the wrapping paper. The illustration was an inktober project and the inspiration behind my Maggie’s Penguin Parade sculpture Maggie &…
Fun A Day Dundee Exhibition 2019
All the colours of the rainbow for this year’s Fun A Day Dundee exhibition at Wasps Meadow Mill Studios. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💖 Here’s my piece “When You Make Time For Nonsense It Will Bring Lots Of Smiles” This year I decided to focus on fun, nonsense and exploring colour. I created a colourful world over the month…
“Bodies, Botanicals & Bindings: Reimagining Rare Books” Exhibition
Would you like a peek at the piece I created especially for the “Bodies, Botanicals and Bindings: Reimagining Rare Books” exhibition with Dundee University Archive Collections? I chose to collaborate with George Knorr, who originally created beautiful hand coloured copperplate engravings in ‘Deliciae Naturae Select’, 1754. I hope he would approve! The printed versions of…
Story Books and Fairy Tales Turned into Paper Sculptures for Charity Ball
I can finally unveil my Hansel and Gretel Storybook Ball piece that I have created for The Archie Foundation 🌲 It’s going to be auctioned on Saturday 25th August at The Chester Hotel 🌿 I hope it raises lots! It’s always makes me nervous when my work goes to auction! This intricate piece is hand…
Book Illustration Project: Adaptive Interaction and Dementia
We got published!!! 💚 The brilliant Dr Maggie Ellis from St Andrews University asked me to illustrate a book that she was writing with Professor Arlene Astell back in February 2017! I jumped at the opportunity to work with them. Mainly cos Maggie is just so lovely… but also because both my grandfathers suffered from…
Have You Met Harold and Pip?
“We’re calling the bar ‘Bird and Bear’.” “What a brilliant name” I replied to Phil with a big smile, “so what’s their story?” “We don’t know yet, but you like telling stories, would you like to come up with ours?” Without even the slightest hesitation I said yes. What an opportunity. Before I knew it…
Who Stole Noa The Narwhal?
“Suzanne Scott from WhimSicAL LusH argues the case for supporting independent retailers, both online and in stores.” I am delighted to have been invited to write another piece for UNESCO Dundee City of Design’s ‘Design For Life’ in the Courier’s Weekend magazine. Here it is, I hope you enjoy it… As with most mornings I…
No.1 Amazing Women Awards Ambassador
Quite the surreal thing seeing myself in No.1 magazine as one of their Amazing Women Awards ambassadors! Such a HUGE honour to have been asked to join them! Those of you who know me well will know that my usual comfort zone isn’t doing the hair/ makeup/ interview/ photoshoot thing in a studio… but it…
Have you ever met a kabouter?
Have you ever met a kabouter? I have always enjoyed stories of old Holland from my Oma (my grandmother). Childhood stories about skating on the canals and exploring. She retold Dutch fairytales and brought with her the Dutch tradition of leaving your shoe out on 5th December to hopefully receive a present from Sinterklaas on…
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