About Me

Hi there, I'm Kirsty and I'm so happy you're here!

I'm an illustrator working predominently in watercolour to preserve memories of people, places, and a time.

I have a love for stories of people and their loved ones, which is how I ended up where I am today. I'm an illustrator who paints people to cherish and preserve memories of a moment in time.

I’ve always had a love for art and aspired to be an artist throughout my childhood and mid-teens.

Until life happened, as it always does…

Ultimately, I ended up working in healthcare and began studying to be a Registered Nurse because I wanted to help people and bring some light to some awful situations.

Whilst I was studying I was also working full time in a secure dementia wing, as well as volunteering with my local ambulance service. Plus I had a young child, and general life happening.

Can you imagine what happened next? You guessed it; Burnout.

This was due to striving for perfection, as well as experiencing significant loss and tragedy in both my professional and personal life.

I realised that I was no longer capable of providing direct care to people, so I left my job and my degree.

This is what brought me back to making art; I felt so rubbish about myself for giving up on what I had worked so hard on for the previous 5 years and decided to whip out my paintbrushes to try to block out these negative thoughts I was having about myself.

I started again and I haven't stopped since. Creating art helped me to find myself and who I truly am at my core. And now, I get to use my previous experiences to help people celebrate life and those within it.

I like to call myself an observer of life; I enjoy watching people go about their daily lives and believe that we don't need a big cinematic backdrop to be special and valued.

I shine a light on this by capturing people's characters, likes and quirks in illustration form.

History and storytelling also have a big place in the work that I do. I'm an avid history-nerd and I love researching and daydreaming about people who lived before us.

I'm quite a romantic, and can look at a spoon from 100 years ago and imagine what the life of a person who used it may have looked like.

Because of my obsession, I collect vintage ephemera (such as bus tickets, old letters, photographs) and like to package my artwork with them to represent me as a person and to celebrate life through the form of nostalgic paper goods.

So, here I am - preserving the memory of people through my illustrations and I am the happiest I've ever been.