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Petalon message cards

Harvesting Panicum Virgatum to be dried and arranged into Christmas wreaths.

Lanteague Mural

Mural commission for lanteague studios. Illustrated site map of all the independent businesses in the units.

Lickety Ice

Illustrated branding for Lickety Ice, an ice lolly company based in Suffolk.

In 2021 Lickety Ice launched their compostable lolly wrappers, collected in a comPOST bin given to each of their suppliers. The wrappers get collected and taken back to their allotment to help grow the fruit for their lollies. I worked with Lickety Ice to illustrate their wrappers and compost bin in 2021, and recently revisited this project, illustrating website banners and lolly flavours for their new website.

Chestnuts and Quinces

For dad. A silkscreen print made up of six colour layers, composed from my drawings of my mum, sister and hound in the garden. From a time when dad was in too much pain to do anything but sleep, we kept ourselves busy bringing nice things indoors from the garden to roast on the fire and boil up into membrillo.

Below is another printed edition with two colour layers. Both versions available to purchase on my online shop.

Lowena flowers

France sketchbook

Searching for a hidden peak

Sandwiches and wine

Camp set up

Chocolatine!

Drying flowers

Message card design for Petalon flowers. To be sent out with their postal box bouquets over the festive period.

Documenting the strings of home grown foliage hanging up to dry in the barn, before being made into christmas wreaths.

Making wreaths

Message card design for Petalon flowers, sent out with their postal box bouquets over the festive period.

Documenting the busy time for the florists in the studio, arranging home grown dried foliage into christmas wreaths.

Sunflower cards

Sunflower cards for winter solstice.

Risograph printed with blue, black and gold soya-based inks on recycled paper by Roots Press based in Porthtowan, Cornwall.

NEPAL & INDIA SKETCHBOOK

In September 2022 my partner Zach and I went on a four month trip, starting in Nepal and traveling down to the South of India. We kept sketchbooks along the way to document our adventures. Here is a small collection of the many watercolour paintings I made along the way.

Naked Generation

Illustrated swing tag design for Naked Generation, a slow fashion company based in Cornwall.

Selling beautiful Indian wood block printed dresses and textiles, Naked Generation is a celebration of ancient craft, sustainability and sisterhood. A small and mighty company who create ethically made, small batch, soulful clothing that you treasure forever.

The Three Sisters

The Three Sisters is an ancient Indigenous American growing technique that I read about it Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Sweetcorn, squash and runner beans are companion plants, forming a symbiotic relationship when planted next to each other.

This is a six layer silkscreen print.

Simbiosis

The Three Sisters is an ancient Indigenous American growing technique that I read about it Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Sweetcorn, squash and runner beans are companion plants, forming a symbiotic relationship when planted next to each other.

This is a two layer silkscreen print, available to purchase from my online shop.

Sketchbooks

I love to document my surrounding environment, both the people and the places, with drawings. I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and very often my drawings from life later inform my illustrations, and so my work is always somewhat autobiographical. Here is a small selection of my sketchbook pages! :-)

Midnight in Mebourne

Riso printed album artwork for Nick Kingswell’s latest song ‘Midnight in Melbourne’. The drawings in the album artwork make up the frames for the stop motion animated Spotify canvas.

A limited amount of these prints are available to purchase from my shop.

Nick Kingswell

Album artwork for Nick Kingswell’s EP ‘Sometimes when it’s raining, I imagine that it’s not’ released in July 2022.

3 layer riso print. The drawings make up the frames of a stop motion animation for Nick’s Spotify canvas.

Flower to fruit tapestry

A Lino print inspired by a weekend in Wales full of blackberries, pears and an avocado tree found in the compost heap.

Printed on A2 300gsm Fabriano paper using Gamblin black oil based ink.

festive cards

Apple picker

Witchy mulled wine

each card design is a limited edition of 60. Riso printed by Roots press in Cornwall. Printed with soy based inks on recycled paper.

Thali Finali

Poster design for Wilder’s Thali Finali at Mount Pleasant Eco Park in Porthtowan, Cornwall.

Alison's kitchen

My first drypoint etching and aquatint of Alison’s farmhouse kitchen. This image was originally a drawing in my sketchbook that I traced onto an etching plate.

Flower swimmer skinny dipper

A riso printed stop motion animation inspired by the peaceful and liberating feeling you get from a solitary sea swim!

A3 Riso prints of the animation frames are up for sale on my shop.

Printed by Eco Park Press in Cornwall, made with soy based inks and banana leaf masters, on 100% recycled paper!

Winter solstice cards

Foragers

Moonies

each card design is a limited edition of 60. Riso printed by Roots press in Cornwall. Printed with soy based inks on recycled paper.

Ziran Wuwei log

Collaboration with the surfboard company Ziran Wuwei, making an illustration for the hull of a 9’2” nose rider.

Featuring 12 silkscreen printed frames from my animation ‘Flower swimmer skinny dipper’ and pressed flowers around the fin patch.

Lickety Ice

I had the pleasure of working with Lickety Ice on their new compostable packaging, launched summer 2021. This comprised of an illustrated com’post’ bin to collect the wrappers, an illustrated A-frame board, and 12 label designs for their lollies.

Ziran Wuwei fin

Silkscreen printed sun flower repeat pattern, inlayed within the fibreglass of a longboard fin for the surfboard company Ziran Wuwei based in Falmouth, Cornwall.

First Temple workshops

Human Root

An image inspired by David Attenborough’s witness statement, A Life On Our planet. “There’s a chance to make amends, manage our impact and once again become a species in balance with nature, all we need is the will to do so”.

Sirplus

I had the pleasure of working with the British menswear brand Sirplus, creating two stop motion animations for their winter sale.

Chopping boards

A collaborative project with Bob Pendered, cabinet maker. We wanted to put to use the leftover wood in his workshop. Hand made chopping boards with hand burnished illustrations, each chopping board is completely unique!

These boards completely sold out, but if you wish to commission one we plan to make more in the new year so please get in touch!

Freddie Grubb: The Tour

I was asked by Freddie Grubb to be the illustrator for their project ‘The Tour: discover the neighbourhood’ a pocket-sized guide to Islington.

Having always used drawing as a way to document my surroundings, I was really excited to be part of Freddie Grubb’s The Tour project, with a brief that meant I got to visit Islington (an area of London that I had never been before) and explore.

Following Freddie Gubb’s map of 25 locations to find and draw, it felt like a treasure hunt of Islington’s hidden jewels. Walking through the farmers market as people bought their weekly veg, drawing the regulars getting fish from Steve Hatt’s fishmongers, sitting one afternoon at Pophams bakery and watching as a constant stream of locals queued for their mouth-watering pastries. All of this felt like a real insight into daily life in Islington, and I hope that I have captured this feeling within The Tour and helped Freddie Grubb encourage you to visit all of these wonderful places.

Designed and produced by Freddie Grubb

Photography by Harry Grunfeld

SLOW FASHION

Project inspired by Oxfam’s second hand September campaign. I screen printed banners onto deadstock calico fabric (and other second hand fabric finds) to celebrate how garments and patterns can evolve over time through passing down.

Girls climbing trees

Crop from 1 of 3 tree hangings for the Tales of the Forest exhibition at the create centre in Bristol, June 2019. The trees are silkscreen printed onto calico fabric, and are 2m tall.

Tomorrow

Lino print for Joel Taylor’s new track ‘Tomorrow’ out on Spotify now.

Wunderkammer

“A magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air, costs very little, and builds itself” (George Monbiot 2019). A tree is a natural climate solution, and a tool we could use to repair our broken climate. This is an A3 silkscreen print made for Wunderkammer, Falmouth university’s annual illustration magazine. I was later asked to turn this design into a poster for the exhibition Loose Idea.

Sun jumper girl

Riso print pattern, part of my slow fashion project celebrating second hand clothes.

Flowers

Silkscreen printed repeat flower print inspired by my favourite jumper. This print is part of my slow fashion project celebrating second hand clothes.

Zen girl

Silkscreen printed zen girl sitting on the cutlap of a Ziran Wuwei long board. Drawing plucked from my sketchbook when I was listening and drawing to The Water People podcast with Gerry Lopez.

BYOB

(bring your own bagel) a brand campaign encouraging 18-25 year olds to ‘carry on the party’ and make their Saturday mornings fun with good food and friends.

I made this animation at my parents home in Suffolk during coronavirus lockdown. I wanted my final university project to be reminiscent of my favourite Falmouth memories; the boogies and bagel breakfasts inspired by my best friends that I have been lucky enough to meet there!

Hand drawn stop motion animation with a silkscreen printed pattern background, printed using hand cut stencils.

Salted peanuts

Riso printed comic that I entered into the 2019 Jonathan cape graphic short story prize, that I later made into a zine.

Self isolating in Spring

A short hand painted stop motion animation inspired by being stuck inside (or in the garden) during covid 19 lockdown!! Acrylic paint and pen on layout paper.

VEG PANTS

Vegetable underwear to encourage the wearer to eat seasonally!

Girls climbing trees

Silkscreen printed fabric tree hangings that I made for the Tales of the Forest exhibition at the create centre in Bristol, June 2019. Inspired by sisterhood and the memory of climbing trees whilst growing up. Tales of the Forest are a Bristol based ecological art project themed around storytelling and trees, woodlands and forests.

Upcycled jeans

IWD 2020

Short comic about my amazing sister that I made for international women’s day, made into an 8-fold riso printed zine.

Petalon message cards

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Lanteague Mural

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Lickety Ice

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Chestnuts and Quinces

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Lowena flowers

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France sketchbook

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Drying flowers

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Making wreaths

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Sunflower cards

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NEPAL & INDIA SKETCHBOOK

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Naked Generation

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The Three Sisters

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Simbiosis

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Sketchbooks

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Midnight in Mebourne

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Nick Kingswell

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Flower to fruit tapestry

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festive cards

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Thali Finali

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Alison's kitchen

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Flower swimmer skinny dipper

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Winter solstice cards

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Ziran Wuwei log

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Lickety Ice

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Ziran Wuwei fin

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First Temple workshops

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Human Root

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Sirplus

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Chopping boards

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Freddie Grubb: The Tour

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FREDDIE GRUBB: THE TOUR

SLOW FASHION

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Girls climbing trees

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Tomorrow

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Wunderkammer

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Sun jumper girl

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Flowers

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FLOWERS

Zen girl

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BYOB

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Salted peanuts

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Self isolating in Spring

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VEG PANTS

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Girls climbing trees

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Upcycled jeans

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IWD 2020

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© Rachel Pendered

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