This is a card design (painted with real tea!) by me for the charity Contact the Elderly. Volunteers host tea parties for isolated older people and several designers were invited to produce thankyou cards for the volunteers. They have now been printed and will be on sale through the charity later in the year.

I’ve just finished a residency at Reigate Sixth Form College, working with a group of BTEC students on an animal-inspired theme. I was really pleased with the work they produced - one student even got a commission from the local natural history museum we visited for observational drawing at the start of the project. 

Here are some of the end results, ranging from a set of cards to an installation of giant owl eyes.

This week I’ve been working on a four panel mural with three classes of Year 4 children at Burlington Junior School in New Malden. Each child painted a bird or leaf then I wrote welcome in seven different languages. The panels will be put up outside the main entrance to the school.

My new show with my sister Alison, ‘Printed Matter’, is now open at Sutton House, Hackney - the oldest house in East London & very interesting to visit.

‘Printed Matter’ runs from now until 21st December and then from 4th Feb - 1st March 2009. Opening hours are Thurs-Sun, 12.30-4pm.

I have been getting work ready for a new show at Sutton House in Hackney, opening at the end of the week.