laratheescapeartist

Hello! My name is Lara, I’m a British cartoonist/artist/mother with self-diagnosed eco-anxiety living in Brussels.

Before this I was a fully paid up member of the rat-race. By the age of 29 and having never been fired, I’d worked as a project engineer in a deodorant factory for one of the largest producers of consumer goods in the world, as an accountant at one of the Big 4 Accountancy firms, as a technology analyst at the largest technology consulting and outsourcing firm in the world, as a façade engineer and building services engineer at two of the biggest engineering consultancy firms in the world in Hong Kong, and as a sustainability consultant at a tiny environmental consultancy firm in Croydon and one of largest corporate real estate firms in the world in London. Suffering from quite severe RSI in my arms and general burnout, I decided I needed to escape and embrace my creative side… quite possibly permanently. It’s been nearly ten years now, and you can follow me here and on my blog to see what I’ve been up to:

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