As a very young child I walked down the paths of the rice fields of Japan. The grass was way taller than I was, and strung across the pathways were huge spider webs with big, fat spiders in the centre. It was best to duck under them so you didn’t get eaten.  As I walked along I would meet the strangest of creatures, and sometimes a clearing would open up and you could see vast rice fields. When you peered over the edge of the clearing you could see that the rice channels were teeming with tadpoles and frogs of all sizes. I could pop my hand in and bring up a handful of wriggling tadpoles. After many hours of animal adventures hunger would send me home, but when I got there I felt a most urgent need to draw and write about everything I saw.

Back in New Zealand, and the natural progression was art school, as per my art teacher’s recommendation, but I felt the need to go and experience life. I got involved in the world of accounting, finance and banking, with art taking a back seat for a while, which it did. Some online art classes became available so I dived straight in and an opportunity arose to study with a Disney and Warner Brothers animator. Wow, what an experience that was.

My art then took me into the signwriting and the computer graphics industry.  These industries taught me a lot about designing for all types of signage to fit all business/personal needs for any occasion, indoors or outdoors no matter what the size or substrate. These experiences helped evolve me into a very aware illustrator.

The need to be constantly drawing surfaced and being in the signwriting industry didn’t really give me that option. I guess for me all I really wanted to do was draw from dawn to dusk and the bits before and after.

The walk to here has been an adventurous one. Now I work from a converted car garage at the front of my house which fringes the township of Marlborough, the sauvignon wine capital of New Zealand.

I look forward to being of help to you should you wish to use my services. 

Thank you for stopping by. 

Kind regards 

Bee