Self-Portrait (Anxiety) 2026 Acrylic paint, oil pastel, chalk pastel, charcoal, and graphite on canvas ✍️ #MentalHealth #painting #anxiety #portrait #art

✍️ Working away on my big self-portrait... this canvas is massive, and I don't have an easel anymore, so I'm awkwardly propping it up on my desk 😅 I've had this thing for ages, so I'm glad it's finally getting used!! It does feel weird working on a life-size painting of my own face, tho 😬

👀 There's a new display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery called "Solidarity Wins | Creative Resistance in North Edinburgh" which is definitely worth a visit if you're into zines, activist art, and learning about local projects of solidarity and protest ✊️ #activism #art #exhibition #zines

👀 I really enjoyed popping along to the Making a Statement: Craft & Activism in Edinburgh exhibition 🖼 It was cool to see the displays of historical protest pieces brought together with the modern craftivist works 😍 #craft #activism #Edinburgh

A few closeups of my recent finished piece 👀 ✍️ Self-Portrait (Panic Attack) Ink, and watercolours on A2 paper. #anxiety #drawing #MentalHealth

If you see someone kicking a pigeon, I think it should be acceptable for you to go up to that person and kick them. Hard.

✨️ Finished my #anxiety self-portrait sketch ✍️ This isn't quite the pose I'll be using for my final painting... but it would be low-key so useful to have that many arms! Imagine how many more #drawings I could finish 🤩

😵‍💫 I took so many reference shots and struggled to settle on the best one for my painting... so, I thought I'd also use a bunch of them to play around with an idea that I couldn't quite let go of - even if I'm not going to use it in the final painting!✨️ #anxiety #drawing #WIP

👀 A wee peek inside my sketchbook as I figure out exactly how I'd like the scribbly anxiety patterns to look in the huge canvas self-portrait painting I'm working on... it's so massive that I want to make sure I get it right!! 😬

The ground is spinning. I can't hold it together. Sick of being sick.

And YOU would be prettier if you fucked off! Taking my feelings out on some collages!! Plz don't say this to people or pandas... especially not people you don't know! #collage #cutandpaste

✨️ Super excited to announce that this photo from my Forest Bathing series has been featured in Issue 67 of @haus_a_rest "Unseen Perspective" 🥰 Check it out via www.haus-a-rest.com/issue-67-pho...

✨️ Happy Hogmanay, art pals 🥳 Hope you have a creative 2026! This is my wee Art vs Artist for 2025, and I hope next year I'll create even more art!! 👀

🐓 I've had a bit of time for collaging in amongst all the festivities of the season, and I'm still very much enjoying combining human and animal portraits! What do you think of this rooster-person? 👀

✨️ Happy Hollydays ☃️ Hope ya'll are having a wonderful festive period 🎄

✂️ The next in my current series of collage works - I really love combining portraiture with animal parts 🪰 What do you think of this one? 👀

Nautilus drawing 🫧

🦕 I've been working on some collage works recently, and I am really getting into this practice. I've used collage a lot in zine-making, but rarely sit down to create ✨️a collage✨️ and it's been so much fun! 🦖 I'd be curious to know what you think of this piece? 👀

It's that kind of day today. Inks on A6 paper.

Doodling 🐟

✍️ I'm working on the new Cats Zine for @coinoppress and I need to think of a new way to draw my boi for the front cover art!! 😻 How would you draw the very handsome blob of Thor? 👀

💙 FINALLY caught up with Doctor Who... and I can now say for certain the era of David Tennant is still very much my favourite!! He will always be my favourite Doctor, but his episodes also just had the best writing tbh! 🤞 we can get back there one day - Ncuti Gatwa was robbed of a good story 😫

I 💙 Bluey

✍️ It's been ages since I've doodled a rude cat... I've been feeling a bit rude lately... must take up the practice again 😈 Do you have any suggestions for what my rude cats could be saying? 👀

✨️New stockist!!!✨️ Pop along to Summerhall and check out the new Arts Boutique, where you'll find a bunch of my prints now!! 😍

Went to a life drawing class last night for the first time in like 10 years! Despite not feeling confident and not really liking any of the drawings I ended up with, it was really nice to just devote some time to actually practicing and learning something new! 🙌

Drawing Psyduck 💛 my fave lil headache pal!!

I made this dumb lil zine at Zine Club out of kid's magazine, and it was so much fun 😅

🧜‍♀️ Revealing... Calladh 😁

Dunno, tbh.

😍 I'll have a bunch of my zines for sale at The Cornershop Collective, as well as showing off a behind-the-zines demo of how I make my zines, and you can even have a go at folding your own mini-zine with a wee guide to take away with you too!! ✂️ Come along from 10-4 and learn more about zines!! 👀

One of the best things about Fantasy Forest is making the costumes to wear all weekend!! This year I was a Mershroom and Stuart was a work-in-progress druid (he adds bits and pieces to his character each year) - and I think we look fantastical!! I'm already prepping my new look for next year 👀

Thank you, body, for behaving while I was away in Birmingham this past weekend! It was so nice not to have to cancel this comic con!! If we could just keep this energy going for our holiday to Fantasy Forest this coming weekend, please! 🤞🤞🤞

😍 A wee vlog from Comic Con Midlands! Thank you for a fantastic weekend, Birmingham!! 🤞 I can come back again next year 🤩

All set-up at Comic Con Midlands! 🤩 What do you think of my wee artist alley table? 👀

✨️ Come find me in the Artist's Alley at Comic Con Midlands 🤩 We're here at the NEC all day Saturday and Sunday!! 🙌

✨️ This weekend I'm super excited to be tabling at Comic Con Midlands 🤩 See ya'll at the NEC for my biggest event yet!! 🙌

🦭 The Selkie Awards are back for our second year! 🦭 If you're based in Scotland and finished a comic in the past year, we want to hear from you! Our applications are now open until 31 July. Check out the details here: selkieawards.org/2025 #scottishcomics #scottishcomicbookday #smallpress

Hello people of #booksky ! I am asking for responses to my survey looking into book reader culture in Scotland. If you are an adult in Scotland who considers yourself a reader, please fill out my quick survey! On average so far, it takes about 4 minutes to fill it out. forms.office.com/e/WR37aGcjFF

COVER REVEAL 🍷🩸🫀🌒✨ A new choose-your-own romance for adult readers, out this September. - Dating sim vs gothic novel energy - Be & romance any gender - Multiple endings for the main vampires + lots more romanceable NPCs Pre-orders & INCREDIBLE guest art previews: hari-illustration.com/natvc #natvc

I finished off this lil blackout poetry mini-zine that I've been working on for a while at our @coinoppress Zine Club yesterday! I feel like I've not fully made a zine for agesssss... and now I realise how much I've missed - next time I get sad, remind me that zine-making makes me happy, plz 😅

Komi Can't Communicate... and neither can I tbh. ✍️ ink and pencil on A4 paper ✍️

🤩 I'm SUPER EXCITED to be taking part in another stamp rally!! This time it's the Godzilla vs King Kong Rally at Kaiju Con!!! ✨️ Pick up a rally card at any of our tables, collect your stamps by buying a thing from each stall, and then claim your prize ✨️

👀 New for Kaiju Con!! 🩵 Komi!! 🩵 Love me an anxious lass, and I'm super excited to have this new illustration printed on tote bags, pin badges, stickers, and prints!! ✨️ Find me at table JJ6 in the artist's alley for all the Komi love!! ✨️

✨️ Kaiju Con!! ✨️

👀 New drawing just dropped!! I am OBSESSED with this anime!! I need more like RN!!! Also, I really need a cream puff now... 🤤

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️ I am deeply dismayed by the ruling of the UK Supreme Court and want to make it emphatically clear that I do not support the judgement of our people in power. This space is, and will always be, a safe space for Trans people 🏳️‍⚧️

✨️All set up and ready to go!!✨️ Pop along to the @stenochcentre from 10am-5pm this Saturday & Sunday for a Comic and Toy Fair from @excelsioreventsuk 😍

✨️THIS WEEKEND✨️ join me at the St Enoch Centre from 10am-5pm Saturday & Sunday for a Comic and Toy Fair from Excelsior Events 😍 I'll have lots of my nerdy prints and pins and a whole bunch of Coin-Operated Press zines too 💖 Can't wait to see ya'll there 🤩