Geraldine Illustration

Geraldine Illustration Manchester, UK
👋 Live Event Illustrator
🪩 I draw the clerb
Getty images has got nothing on my work
Bookings: [email protected]

18/06/2026

Possibily the quietest I have ever been for a drawing 🤫

Drawing Salt & Pepper MCR during lunchtime service feeding Manchester City Centre 🍗🥡🐲

Two siblings. A family run business. Trading in their grandparents recipes and modern ideas to become part of everyone’s...
17/06/2026

Two siblings. A family run business. Trading in their grandparents recipes and modern ideas to become part of everyone’s favourite midday lunch decision in Manchester.

I moved here 5 years ago and got my first waitressing job opposite the Arndale. During training they took us to get something to eat. And I have been eating Salt and Pepper ever since.

It has warmed me up during winter days under grey clouds. To make me feel better when I’ve felt lonely. More so, it’s been a meal I can always afford when working as an artist wasn’t really feasible. If I had a tenner on me, a sticky chicken meal was always a staple.

So why did I have to cross paths with Chloe? Because my life has a tendency to thrown me in the deep end. In a random party when I was looking for new friends and profound relationships, I met the woman behind those meals that had kept me afloat for all those years. And now her flagship store was across the street.

I also found out that she could draw better than me. Which made me hungry for more than Sticky Chicken. I was going to draw it.

I walked into a room of people all dressed in Chloe’s branding designs. The red outlined dragon across their T-shirts. A bees wings spreading out from the logo. Meanwhile a queue of trades men and office warriors were waiting hastily for the lunch rush outside. It was a Wednesday and by this time everyone is wanting to get through the last few days of their 9 - 5. I gave Chloe a hug and met her brother. Without hesitation I began.

Sitting silently in the corner, I watched a family operate a kitchen like second nature. A bee and a dragon. One breathing in the flames of the grill. One flying across the counter to transport goods. Both welcoming you into their home. Bellowing out names and orders amongst the array of receipt tickets and cardboard boxes being passed around.

Food really is wonderful. It can bring people together without even knowing. A few moments at a dinner table in my house was the difference between a good relationship and a tumultuous one. So the value in seeing what Salt and Pepper have built for the city is more than just lunch. It’s a swarm of hard grafters who love one another.

17/06/2026

Drawing Salt & Pepper was a dream! 5 years they’ve been feeding me as an artist so I had to give back as soon as I met Chloe and everyone who works behind the store ❤️

Who wants to see the artwork?

11/06/2026

THE FINAL MOMENT. One moment I’m truly blessed to of seen. One moment I’m truly blessed to be able to draw.

🎁 Prints are available now on my website to buy!

🎨 Drawing the Arsenal FC Premier League Trophy Parade

👀 Viewpoint is taken from the Victoria Tavern on Holloway Road

11/06/2026

Win this Live Illustration of the FC Parade drawn at the on Holloway Road FOR JUST £1!

👩‍💻 Follow the link in my bio or go to my website and click on shop!
💵 £1 per entries
🎟️ 20 entries per purchase
⏰ Entries close on 30th July 2026 at 1pm UK time
🏆 Winner will be announced on the 31st July 2026

Artwork will come sent to the address provided upon purchase of the raffle ticket.
It will be shipped, signed and packaged by Geraldine Illustration.

Good luck Gunners! Up the Arsenal! ❤️

My whole life I’d spent growing up a 26 minute train journey away from Finsbury Park. Anytime I’d jump on the Thameslink...
10/06/2026

My whole life I’d spent growing up a 26 minute train journey away from Finsbury Park. Anytime I’d jump on the Thameslink from Hitchin to King’s Cross, I’d pass the overarching Emirates stadium. Bergkamp, Henri, Wright and Seaman. Heroes Together passing my view and overcrowding the skyline. Slowly changing into Deller, Reuben and Rudnicks artwork of Alex Scott, Jack Wilshere and Patrick Viera and more. It was hard to ignore a team you love so much instil creative freedom and an opportunity for artists to receive recognition for all those years.

It’s now 7.30am on May 31st 2026 and I’m waking up in Stevenage with Bianca. The first time I’m going in to Finsbury Park in 22 years where 10 carriages are decorated in dominant red crested cannon supporters. We grab a quick bite to eat and make our way down to the Victoria Tavern on Holloway Road.

So many people said that live drawing the Arsenal Parade was impossible. As I set up my equipment overlooking a crowd of 1.5 million, a young boy called Matthew was standing waving a large Arteta flag screaming Louis Dunford’s North London Forever and I came to an emotional state of harmony.

I’m sure many people doubted if Matthew could stay whistling like a Hummingbird all day. I’m sure people doubted Arteta when he took the title of manager in 2019. And I’m definitely sure that in my long rein of drawing live events people have doubted my skill to draw some of the biggest moments in history.

And I became at one with it.
I met Shreena and her family. I met a mother and daughter from Milton Keynes. I met Bradley and Chris. I held hands with John, Maia and Bianca as we sang in harmony. I watched a bus full of Arteta, Saka, Eze, Rice big Gabby and all the boys raise a Premier League trophy up for us all to see. Followed in suit by Williamson, Russo, Foord and Wubben-Moy and the rest of the women’s team.

This was that exact moment. I did it. We did it. Up the Arsenal.

08/06/2026

Without people going to these events and humans creating something out of it, we wouldn’t be living. I’m glad my pals understand the reason I leave the house with my sketchbook everyday 😂👩‍🎨

07/06/2026

The Arsenal Parade but each time we see anything resemble a bus come past the main road everyone gets more and more excited!

Who ready to see me draw the final moment where Arsenal Squad go through Holloway Road and celebrate by lifting their Premier League Trophy to the fans?

And I’m not apologising to Calafiori. You know who you are and you know what you did to the girls in the UK this season babe 🤏

06/06/2026

My nan and grandad are the type of people that aren’t easily impressed especially when it comes to Art.

They are always proud of me but being from a Irish background with large families, little money to keep them afloat and not a pot to p**s in growing up, me choosing a career in Art has seemed out of touch for them ever since I started drawing when I was 5 years old.

So this moment is something I’m going to hold on to forever. Knowing I impressed her by using my skills to get on Sky Sports News TV Live at the Arsenal Parade last week means that three generations of hard graft is finally paying off.

Guess I have the luck of the irish on my side after all 🇮🇪 ☘️ ❤️ and Arsenal forever COYG ⚽️

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