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Patience
One of my new year’s resolutions was to start a walks journal. My idea was to make a sort of scrapbook of our family walks through the year by collecting maps and leaflets, and making notes of the weather, café … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged allotment, baby, bees, birds, blossom, blues, children, cycling, dry point, flagpole cherry, foxgloves, garden, gardening, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, January, maple, patience, pointing, printmaking, rain, sitting, soil, weather, wet, wind
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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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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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More
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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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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Exeter guildhall
Over the last few months I have got involved with a group called Exeter Illustrators. As the name suggests they are a bunch of illustrators who live around the Exeter area who have got together to collaborate on projects, socialise … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged buildings, city, exeter, Exeter City Council, Exeter Illustrators, Exeter Lord Mayor, guildhall, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, medieval, urban
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More beating the bounds
We have been lucky this week. The days have been bathed in a soft autumn light picking out all the shades of bronze and gold in the fading leaves. On the old tythe maps the parish was covered in orchards … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged children, forest, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, kids, picture books, wood
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