I graduated with a degree in graphic design from the Michaelis School of Art at UCT where I was taught/influenced by such SA luminaries as Neville Dubow, Kevin Atkinson, Peggy Delport, Katrine Harries, Stanley Pinker and Roman Waher.
As an artist, I cannot escape the need to bring laughter, colour and movement into my illustrations, although certain commissions require that I be more disciplined. I manage this by listening to morbid music on the radio. I’ve been illustrating professionally now for more than a decade.
I have worked for most local publishers in South Africa, including Juta’s, Maskew Miller Longman, Oxford University Press, Heinemann, Macmillan, Shuter and Shooter, Nasou, Cambridge University Press, Vivlia and Pearson Education SA.
I work mainly in acrylics, coloured watercolour pencils, crayon, pen and ink.
My favourite illustrators are: South Africa’s own Piet Grobler, Bob Graham, Tony Ross, Babette Cole, and Mary Rees.
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