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 Life is never a straight path, it’s a spiraling maze of exploration!

An eclectic creative individual, who has a resourceful approach to graphic design, image making and creative visual communication. Enthusiastic about hand made crafted design work, passionate about typography and print based design and dedicated to image making in a mixed creative style.
With a diverse creative portfolio I consider myself very adaptable to any project. My unique style would be considered mixed media with a combination of hand rendered, drawn and digital methods; with other styles of image making that include paper craft and collage. I am flexible and adaptable. I can work to deadlines too. The dream is to sell art, make art and have fun doing it and bring joy and creativity to others.

Thanks for taking the time to consider me for your creative opportunity.



Education & Qualifications
2006-2009 University for the Creative Arts Epsom, BA Hons Graphic Design

2005-2006 Northbrook College for Further and Higher Education, ABC Diploma in Foundation Art & Design

Skills & Abilities
Good skills in Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign
knowledge of typography and a passion for it
Good drawing and image making skills using a wide range of creative mediums and tools
A resourceful and creative 
way of thinking

Experience

January 2009 Interned for a week at Stream Advertising and Marketing in Fleet, Hampshire
At Stream I gained an amazing amount of experience working with a design agency. I worked on packaging layouts and was given some great guidance on inproving my technique that I hope to put into practice. 
September 2009-December 2009 Interned with Palli Publishing, 
under Emanuele Palladino
I worked as an in house designer for Palli Publishing and Emanuele Palladino's PR ventures working on layouts, branding and art working for the Web sites.

February 2010 Interned for a week at Hand & Eye Letterpress
Working for Hand & Eye Letterpress gave me a better appreciation of typography and a more experienced working knowledge of  typographic and layout principles.

July-September 2010 Another fine mesh screen printers Intern/work placement
I worked here to gain experience in screen printing methods and to learn a new creative skill as I didn't have the chance while on my degree. It was a valuable experience and I learned a lot about this printing process. 

2010-2013 Designed and illustrated for these clients, Cancer research charity event ‘Inspiration on Ice’, Infant club foot appeal, LGBT Asylum News, Mid-Surrey Project for young carers Created some illustration work for Daemon music and brokensoundmusic.com Also designed and illustrated for, Talent 4, Rideout Education, Quest Spiritual shop, Emanuel Palladino of Rugby Rocks and Amelia's Magazien  

2012-present devoting time to personal art and illustration practice and developing personal style also planing and preparing to work towards an MA.

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