British cartoonist based in Brussels on the run from the corporate world.
It’s that time of year again in Brussels when people I know or friends of friends are leaving, so I’ve been drawing leaving presents for people.
This one was for a friend of a friend, who wanted to fit in as many memories as she could for them of where they lived and all the places they went to regularly in Brussels:
And this one was for my friend Sarah and her family who have sadly left… I’m going to miss having them living round the corner from us so much!
As part of my cartoon course I’ve been experimenting with using ink and a paint brush instead of the usual pen and ink +watercolours. The colours are super vivid which I really like and I have to be a bit looser with my style because I have less control of the paint brush.
I still don’t talk about this decision that we have made to not fly very much as it’s just too awkward.
Sometimes I get a bit down that all I seem to talk about with my mum friends is our kids when we should use our free time to talk about something else, but then I remember all the work nights out I’ve ever been on that always degenerate into talk about work. And it beats chat about holidays anyway.
I’m 34 weeks pregnant and it’s uncomfortable to sit and uncomfortable to stand and I can’t sleep properly.. SIGH.
This is happening on Saturday. I am genuinely quite worried.
There are some friends who I just don’t know how we are going to keep seeing because our children just wind each other up.
It was father’s day in Belgium yesterday so I drew this for my husband based on a rainy walk through the forest we’d had with our daughter a couple of weeks ago:
We ended up telling her when I was 9 weeks pregnant, before we told anybody else. I don’t think she was surprised by the news!
I just finished reading ‘Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow’ by Tim Jackson, which I highly recommend, and it inspired this cartoon.
