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Hi, I'm Michi and I've always liked explaining stuff. I love making complicated concepts clear to help solve problems for environmental or social projects doing good in the world, drawing in the old-fashioned way with pen & ink and watercolour. After a distant past of trying to draw "properly", my work has veered toward a somewhat quirky wonkiness whilst still being reasonably accurate and detailed. Which is a lot more fun.
Here's why I came back to drawing after a thirty-year gap... and then started making comics:
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So what was I doing instead for three decades? Working with environmental groups, including a few years in Japan, making lost-wax cast silver wildlife jewellery, renovating old houses, working with community groups, translating Japanese, making vegan sushi, playing fiddle in various bands, and other things which would look terribly random on a CV. As well as raising two beautiful boys.
That first little booklet of graphic recipes has led to varied and interesting opportunities working with environmental campaigns, educational projects, small biz start-ups, and others whose work I love to support, including:
That first little booklet of graphic recipes has led to varied and interesting opportunities working with environmental campaigns, educational projects, small biz start-ups, and others whose work I love to support, including:
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Clients
- BeFries restaurant [there! -->] - University of Sussex - University of Cardiff - Zero Waste Europe, Brussels - Common Cause Co-operative - Ministry of Stories - Oyster Project disability group - Like the Wind magazine - Dancing Fox BV, Amsterdam - Ashurst organic farm - Perceptia Press - East Sussex County Council Published work - DIY Vegan Cooking (Liminal 11/Sterling, 2021) |
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Illustration for books & magazines
- Escape the Classroom (Perceptia Press, 2020) - The Environment Project (Perceptia Press, 2021) - The Kenya Cookbook (Sussex University SPRU, 2018) - Like the Wind magazine #8, #12, #16 - The Carbon Almanac (PRH, 2022) - Generation Carbon (2022) Self-published work - JJ's Graphic Recipes (2013) - Just a Normal Day? (2016) 'choose-your-own-pathway' comic 46pp - Up, Down or Stay the Same? (2016) fun science quiz puzzles - Quick Sketch vegan Graphic Recipes, volume I (2016) - The Day I Found Out How Much Running Really is All in the Mind and other stories (zine, 2018) - A Spoonful of Sugar (2018) created for All is Not Well 8pp, A5 Exhibitions - Norwegian Church, Cardiff 2018 - Gallery 207, Sussex 2023 - Workers Gallery, Ynyshir, Wales 2024 |
I'm in it!
Myriad Editions 2018 |
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Speaking engagements and interviews
- Graphic Brighton conference, Dec 2017 - Off the Front podcast with Elizabeth Emery, mostly on women in sports. 2018 - International Comics and Graphic Novels Conference, Bournemouth June 2018 - Laydeez Do Comics talk on work-in-progress Two Shillings a Day. London, January 2020 Recording with slides here ----------> - Ideamedic podcast on creative work with Tara Roskell, 2017 - Talaterra podcast on environmental education, April 2021 - Workers Gallery, Wales, Feb 2024 
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I live in Sussex in the UK, where I can be found playing the fiddle or maybe even running on the South Downs when not drawing.
Here's what I'm doing right NOW...
