I worked 4 days a week for Finch Design as their first employee.

There are three strands to my freelance business: The first is doing commissions for organisations and individuals, which can range from graphic design jobs like logo designs and websites, posters or banners for events, etc, to more illustrative projects like murals and book illustrations; The second strand focuses on my personal illustration work which I make both traditionally and digitally (sometimes both), influenced by from folklore and fairytale narratives. I exhibit in galleries and in my home studio; Lastly, I take inspiration from my personal work to create laser cut jewellery which I sell online and at markets alongside digital prints of my illustrations.

As sole marketing officer and graphic designer, I worked 2-3 days a week from home to increase footfall on W&BA’s social media platforms and website, as well as improving their brand identity, creating a consistent form of design and clear, friendly and accessible communication across all their online platforms. I scheduled daily social media posts, created and uploaded articles and events to the website and redesigned, collated and edited their monthly newsletter. An increase in paid membership and online followers was seen throughout 2020, despite having to cancel all our physical events due to the pandemic. Sole focus was on our online presence and virtual events which meant I was at the forefront of making this a success. I am very proud to have worked in this role for such a wonderful organisation.

Big Blue Sky was a prestigious art gallery in North Norfolk, known for exhibiting a variety local artists' best work. I exhibited my artwork there while also working as a sales assistant, giving me a great insight into running a small independent business. I loved working with other artists and leasing with stockists and customers. Sadly, due to lack of foot fall, particularly in winter months, Big Blue Sky closed toward the end of 2014.

At Sue Ryder my responsibilities include sorting through donation bags, organising the clothes into sizes, pricing them, steam cleaning them and hanging them in a presentable manner in the store. I have also create displays within the store, I operate the till and am often left in charge of the shop when the manager has to cash up and take the money to the bank.

During my first year at Bath Spa University, I was on the team of volunteers who, together, were in charge of creating the termly edition of the student magazine, Spa Life. Originally I was a member of the Graphic Design team. I helped create a style guide for the entire magazine with my layout designs. Using Adobe InDesign, I created two double page spread layouts for the movie review section, as well as a completely new format for the two double page spread calendar layouts at the back of the magazine.A week before the magazine was due to go to the printers, our Art Director quit. Emily Jones and I volunteered to take his place jointly. We worked together for over fourteen hours collecting together all 45 pages of the magazine from different designers, putting them into one file and checking each page fitted the style guide. This involved a lot of editing the design work ourselves as many of the graphic design team had no prior experience using InDesign. Spending such an intense few hours working to a very immediate deadline really helped me to fine tune my InDesign and layout skills. I learned a lot about the way fonts work together and the importance of using space. The issue of Spa Life that Emily and I put together was dramatically different, design-wise, to the publication's previous issues. It was by far the most popular issue and got over one thousand more views online than any previous and later editions.

I took customers' drinks and food orders, prepared drinks and served food. I was also responsible for making the deserts and presenting them neatly on the plates; a job which I found most enjoyable as it allowed me to use my creativity.

Through Festival Republic I worked at Latitude Festival, East Anglia, in the build up to the festival. Over the course of three weeks, myself and a team of around six other members painted all the signs that were to be put up across the entire arena, back stage and in the camping areas. I was in charge of lettering and Latitude still use the font I created in their signs today.I also helped paint 70 picnic benches, three bridges and many long drop toilets, all of which had to be painted green with daisies on them.