Creative Writing

I have always enjoyed writing and was first 'published' aged 5 in the school magazine, when I wrote a story about a snail who used a strawberry every morning as her lipstick.

At various times I have attended creative writing courses run by the City Lit, based in London.

Quirky, surreal, short stories have become another 'creative outlet' for me in recent years.

Stories

Digging for Treasure - A Journey through the Astrological Symbolism of the Planets

This has been published on the website of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids in their collection of online resources. It is a fairytale of sorts, with further pages of in-depth explanation into the symbolism used.

Click on the link below.

DIGGING FOR TREASURE

A Fishy Tail - The Story of a Maidmer

The following is a weird and slightly dark/deranged story of a Maidmer (a round the wrong way Mermaid).

I also created the illustrations, which are basically line drawings, scanned into the computer and coloured using Photoshop, with digital photomontage backdrops.

Click on the link below to read `A Fishy Tail'.

A FISHY TAIL

Below are some of my illustrations with excerpts from the story - click on each image for more detail...