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Emotional homunculus
Have you ever heard the term homunculus? If you Google it you get images of a funny-looking human with enormous lips and enormous hands. The homunculus is a visual representation of what our body looks like to our brains. In … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged 1970s, biology, brain, chemistry, child psychologist, Chile, conflict, conflict resolution, Debasers Filums, design, dictatorship, Dr Sara Watkin, East Kilbride, education, families, Felipe Bustos Sierra, Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Science Centre, homunculus, illustration, illustrator, mediation, Nae Pasaran, Pinochet, Primate, SCCR, science, scotland, web-design agency, young people
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How Billy Hippo Learned to Swim
I’m back at my desk and my mind is full of festive images…Christmas sing-a-longs, snow-covered hill-tops, purple clouds over a golden sunset, hoicking our friend out of a muddy puddle on a country walk (we nearly had to sacrifice his … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged author, Billy Hippo Learns to Swim, children, christmas, country walks, frogs, Hannah Foley, hills, hippos, illustrator, Little Door Books, mud, picture books, publisher, snow, sunsets, swimming, vivian french, wellies
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Happy New Year!
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged 2018, Hannah Foley, happy new year, illustration, illustrator
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks for all your wonderful support and for following my adventures on this blog. Lots of love to you and yours x
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged 2017, baby, christmas, family life, feminism, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, mental load, merry christmas, mistletoe, parenting, priorities, wrapping paper
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The other day Finch broke my necklace. It wasn’t just any old necklace. It was the necklace Big Dreamer gave me when Wren was born. It has five little stars on it, one for each of us. I wear it … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged advice, baby, black, boy, broken, cafe, children, christmas, crawling, dad, Dartmoor, Dartmoor Park Rangers, dry point, etching, father, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, necklace, printmaking, robin, tree, white, women
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Christmas bustle
The kids break up on Friday so the end is in sight. Christmas plays, Christmas concerts, Christmas fairs, Christmas parties, and nativities are all done. Just Christmas jumper day (oh yes!), Christmas school dinners and one more deadline for me, … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged brass band, christmas, church, Exeter Railway Band, illustration, Lucy and Tom's Christmas, nativity, park, rain, Salvation Army, Shirley Hughes, snow
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December Flowers
It is my last visit of the year to Margaret Erskine Wilson’s book Wildflowers of Britain Month by Month. We have reached December and of course in the lead up to Christmas, I had to chose her beautiful illustration of … Continue reading
Drip drip
It poured on the school run this morning. The rain dripped off my hood, onto the end of my nose, and from there bounced off alternate knees. Wren screamed her head off when I put the rain cover on the … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged advice, Anita Klein, art college, artist, baby, crawling, dry point, evening class, graduate, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, Jeremy Speck, lynn bailey, printmaker, printmaking
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Time for school
The skies are leaden and the day is blustery. The radio regales me with dire weather reports from Scotland; wind, rain and the chance of snow at rush hour tomorrow. Meanwhile I sit snugly at my desk and press Send … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged children, education, elephants, family, gazelle, giraffe, Hannah Foley, hippo, hippopotamus, illustration, illustrator, kids, mountains, non-fiction, nose wiping, rhino, rhinoceros, sacred ibis, safari, school application, scotland, snot, spoonbills, starting school, stormy weather, tissues, waterhole, wildebeest, zebra
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