COMMERCIAL
I have collaborated with a range of businesses and organisations, including CASETiFY, The Steamroom in Haggerston and Bonhams auction house on New Bond Street, creating designs for phone cases, cards, posters and banners.
My commercial work also includes the FT Nikkei UK Ekiden, for which I created the Year 3 race poster, an advertisement for FT Weekend and a commemorative medal. Drawing on Japanese ukiyo-e prints, the project brings together British and Japanese visual traditions in a contemporary design.
Across these projects, I enjoy finding ways to bring historical art, traditional imagery and contemporary culture together, creating work that is both visually distinctive and accessible to a wider audience.
BEAUTIES
Depicting beautiful women is an established genre in art and design, but I wanted to challenge certain standards of beauty in illustration and design today by portraying fuller-figures and encouraging body-positivity.
COMICS
I began my serious illustration career by actually drawing comics. I believed that they could play an important role in education and I could combine my Ph.D. in Chinese literature with my drawing. I worked first on Lu Xun Raccoon, aiming to teach children the writings and life of Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881-1936), and then on ‘Record of a Talking Fox’ about a fox spirit that helps a girl find her way to her migrant worker parents in the city. Along the way, they encounter ghosts from traditional Chinese literature and lore, including those written by Pu Songling (1640-1715). I am currently working on a comic of Adam Smith and his ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments'. Below are some examples of my work.
