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Accidental artist specialising in botanical (plant) and lithic (stone tool) illustration, with bits about doing life with ME/CFS.

03/04/2026

March was a big and busy month, and I am full of joy and anger and delight and sadness and peace. It's all beautiful and all overwhelming, and I am very very tired.

However, I am eternally grateful for the wonderful who has been there through all the overwhelm and tears and frustration, and who sat and made me laugh while we were waiting for surgery (and was more nervous about it than I was) and has had a whole lot of exciting accomplishments of their own this past month. There is no one I'd rather be doing this all with ❤️

31/03/2026

Forgive my garbled thoughts, I had surgery today but was something I have thoughts about that I wanted to share (plus it's nice to focus on the lovely bits of visibility/accidental euphoria and not the transphobia and all the hard stuff). Check out the highlight on my profile for lots more happy trans things 🏳️‍⚧️💛

Music by - one of my best friends in this strange and beautiful life and someone who's been there through all the transness, and also someone who makes unfailingly transcendent music

09/03/2026

February was a fever-dream mix of unpacking and us starting to relax and for the flat to start to feel like home, combined with spending time with wonderful humans and pausing to just experience existence. Geoarchaeology happened too, I just didn't take any photos of it.

Painting by the very talented

08/03/2026

The last three days have been exhausting but wonderful.

05/02/2026

January 2026 was a beautiful whirlwind of moving and work, being ill and being frustrated, learning to communicate through stress and feeling so much love.

Some stories behind the photos:

The exhibition was first year work, curated by the immensely talented .goose (I am still in awe of both your painting and the incredible tree you wove).

Crafting was puppet-making with the wonderful and .alice , whose skill with bringing our creatures to life astounded me and to who I am incredibly grateful for supplying materials, silliness, and Muppet films when I needed them most.

The handwritten records are a mix of artefact catalogues and letters, kept by and sent between a variety of collectors (mainly in London) from 1875 - 1960. This is a resource that takes a long time to make, but is something I'll use for the rest of my career and makes the research so much more human.

Throughout this whirlwind of a stressful month, I have been continually thankful for my beautiful fiancé and their patience, love, and gentleness as we've navigated two house moves, buying our first home together, and being ill. Plus has done all of it while having a lot on at work. You amaze me, my love, and make all the rest feel possible ❤️

12/01/2026

Delighted to have an article published in Earth Heritage today, based on the fieldwork from the FLAG (FLuvial Archives Group) conference in September 2025. Swipe ➡️ to see photos from when we visited the Ingelfinger gravel pit and looked at the gravels deposited by the river Neckar - which have had megafauna remains found in them - and the loess (wind-blown sand) lying over the top.

Earth heritage is a fab magazine focussing on geodiversity and the wonderful geology of various landscapes. It's supported by and

Link in bio to the full article.

27/12/2025

(potentially) the last drawing of 2025 🎉

This was a hard one to draw because the light was so uniform across the piece and there are so many little areas of damage, so I might revisit some of the areas to add highlights.

Check out my last post for details about this beautiful little Upper Palaeolithic artefact, that now lives in the collections.

20/12/2025

Guess who's back to drawing again...!

This was found by Worthington George Smith in 1884 in gravels belonging to the former Hackney Brook, which makes this artefact around 50,000 - 70,000 years old (and the youngest lithic I've illustrated this year!) It's got quite a bit of damage to it in places, likely due to being rolled about in the Hackney Brook, but is a lovely little thing.

This artefact is now in the collections, where I viewed it last year.

18/12/2025

It felt elfish not to share these photos

04/12/2025

Today I'm at a virtual writing retreat and a certain little someone has decided that she wants to be part of the excitement

24/11/2025

This audio feels like the perfect summary of the first six weeks of my PhD 🐤

Most of the time: ill with one thing after another, mostly in bed/being a slug on the sofa. Rest of the time: getting to do lovely things like go to the North York Moors and meet lots of lovely people at training events. Feeling very thankful I have data left over from the masters so that this period of feeling rubbish hasn't effected work too badly! The cats have been delightful though.

Audio context: 'sound of silence' by Simon and Garfunkel played on rubber chickens

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