Amazing. Brighton itself was a wonderful experience; being by the sea in a place that’s so walkable was pretty ideal. The illustration course certainly shaped me, I went in to it drawing in quite a meticulous tight way and came out three years later making video, collage and taking photos. The idea there, to me, seemed to be if you could do something, try another medium, experiment, and have fun with it. They pushed us to be explorative and to find our best way to visually communicate.

For sure, I always come back from being away with lots of ideas and visual references. There is something about being somewhere new and experiences being fresh that really gets my brain ticking. In a few weeks, a friend and I are going to Cuba for five weeks, it’s going to be a total feast visually, I cannot begin to explain how excited I am.

I suppose I can’t deny my aesthetic is pretty feminine. I always work with a balance of colour, shape and surface texture.

I‘m drawn to the beautiful, intricate shapes, textures and colours. I started juxtaposing the two and felt it worked.

Collage is almost like a backwards jigsaw for me, taking elements and reassembling them – a combination can be moving in the wrong direction, and then I might swap a piece out or change a colour and somehow it clicks in my head.

It allows me to keep evolving my style, and moving forwards. I’ll come back to something I haven’t tried in a while and find a new angle within it, and get excited all over again. And then my favourite medium... Right now I’m really looking forward to getting back to taking lots of photos on our trip, and being away from my computer. I like the idea of finding images, and through my camera being able to capture and keep them.

For me Dior has been incredible, I didn’t see myself working with a brand on this scale until it happened. The shows and the images from these are so incredibly beautiful and imaginative to work with, the collection is always a surprise from the last, and the show itself is a total spectacle.
And yes, the music video project with my boyfriend was great to do too! We were given total creative freedom, which doesn’t often happen, so we felt like we really owned the end result. We also worked on an interactive web version of the video, which was a really interesting side to it, something I’d love to explore again.

I like Instagram, and the immediacy of it. It’s like a quick poll, I often find it interesting to see what people respond to and in turn what they don’t. I find it quite intimate as a platform, the things people share and put out publicly. I’ve been asked to do a few takeovers of accounts and through this have reached out to amazing new audiences. I feel there is a strong community of artists, photographers, etc., encouraging and supporting one another, and to me it seems super positive. I’ve discovered so many great and talented people who inspire me day to day through it.

I think this often comes through projects you are approached with, sometimes a project can come in and at first it might be daunting if it’s not your typical approach, but finding ways to work around this pushes you to adapt and reconsider how your style can fit. I also try to have personal work ongoing, to explore ideas I wouldn’t necessarily be able to through commercial work. At the moment I’m looking at taking my work in to more of a three dimensional space and working with real materials as opposed to digitally, it’s nice to mix it up.

Right now it’s freezing in London, perhaps I’ll relocate!