Graphic Recording in London

I have to take my warm woolly hat off to the variety of work in London. Last week I was in Canary Wharf...this week a Baptist church in Merton! 

So many different lives, experiences, so many voices, people, and stories to absorb.

With thanks this week to Lyla Adwan-Kamara at Merton CIL for hiring us and Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen for a grand day's co-drawing.

New Screenprint - Holiday in St Ives

Ok, so I've been busy scribing, but it's all been so top secret, hush hush etc, that I can't post anything here...so instead have a look at a new screen print I did, perhaps not seasonal but never mind - in remembrance of summers past!

When we were down there lots of families had pitched their windbreak facing away from the sea and facing inland, great for people watching:

Railway Children, Thales Group, Graphic Recording, London

Yesterday I was working for the charity Railway Children at Thales Group in London:

https://www.railwaychildren.org.uk/

The theme of the conference was 'Return Interviews'. These are conducted when a child returns home after having run away from home. The social return on investment is huge, for every £1 invested in the interviews an average £5.27 is returned or saved.

The english coalition for runaway children discussed how to improve the whole system so that children and the wider community of family and carers are happier, empowered and feel more positive about the future.

New Screenprints

Bike garden

Together

Affinity

Graphic Recording in Portugal, UK and France

Ok, busy couple of weeks, firstly travelling to Portugal for 3 days to work for an international human resources company.

Then returned to work with Merton CIL in London for a disability consultation, before flying off to France for a day's work there.

Heading south..

Beautiful still morning on Portugal's south coast:

Graphic Recording, The Dragon School, Oxford

This was for a march on the 24th September, aimed at educating and motivating children to be more engaged with the subject of climate change. It included a personal appearance by Professor Ian Goldin of The Oxford Martin School.

The children dressed up as animals to highlight the threat of extinction, carried globes and banners, and basically had a great time, while also learning about the current threats to the planet.

I was there to illustrate the complex area of causes, effects and solutions to climate change, and to absorb the atmosphere and capture the speeches at the end, and this was all outside in one of the parks.

By coincidence, on that same day Gaia Vince was awarded the Royal Society's Science Book of the year award for her book 'Adventures in the Anthropocene' :

https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-prizes/winton-book-prize/adventures-anthropocene/

Graphic Recording in London

Last week I was working with Helen Cooke from My Plus Consulting recording the thoughts and ideas that came up in the 'Graduate Recruiters Disability Cafe Club'

http://www.myplusconsulting.com/index.php

We were on the 9th floor of this law firm's office next to the mayor's office at More London. 

It rained all day, but the moody lighting has its charms! The Thames looked very dramatic. Better get used to it now that autumn is here...