My sketchbook and art journey began in childhood, while on a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads. I loved this holidays so much that I started to keep scrapbooks each time we went. I wanted to capture that feeling of being afloat, in nature on sparkling water. That was when I was 12. These occasional scrapbooks turned into books of to-do lists and diaries as I became a teenager, and in the years since were sometimes nothing more than lists of jobs to do as life and my journalism career took up more of my time. It was only when my son was little did my scrapbook/to-do notebooks morph into the art journals that I do now. Read more...