*PennilessWriter

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the continued interest in my stuff, despite my long, long absence! I promise that I still do art and one day soon I will upload something new...!

I am currently working on a big wooden chest, which I am painting with illustrations from Yann Martel's book, Life of Pi.

Until it's finished, I hope everyone's well... I miss coming on here and keeping up with everything.

xx

I have an unconditional offer to read English Language and Literature at Oxford University, and I start in October.

I can't believe it! I am completely and utterly shocked, but so happy and so excited. I can't wait to start! To everyone out there: you can achieve your dreams. It takes hard work, perseverance, a little Voodoo... but it is possible!




Best. Xmas present. EVER.

Ok, in my head at least. There's something weird about Christmas. It seems to come upon us so quickly. Probably because the advertisers start to throw it in our faces earlier every year; it is their biggest annual cash-in. Who could blame them?

Anyway, Christmas means the end of an era for me. I'll know which university I'm going to (hopefully) and my work experience with Orion and the Pink Paper will be over. I find this scary. And I hope that it wasn't the best part of my gap year and the new year will bring more exciting challenges. Although, if I'm honest, the past few months will be hard to beat.

But to the point: I will also be free to do some more artwork, at last! I hope you haven't all got so bored of me that you don't want to check out the new stuff when it arrives.

Keep on working, people. It's looking good.

xx

I'm having a great time on work experience at the Pink Paper in London.

Currently doing nothing as am about to go home. But... yeah, overall my gap year gets a thumbs up as I'm getting a different kind of education. So all worth it! And I still have university to look forward to.

How is everyone doing? Catch me up!

I plan to do some more artwork soon. Don't forget about me. I'm still here!

So, I'm off on holiday no Thursday. I thought I should leave a message here in case anyone's interested, as I've been rather preoccupied for a month or so. No updates! I am very sorry. I have been working on some illustrations - perhaps I'll be allowed to upload one or two, but no promises. Otherwise, I hope you'll all be there when I finally sort myself out and have something new (and hopefully good) to show you.

I am really loving how prolific everyone else is though. Keep it up! Oh, and think of me in a couple of weeks (August 16th? A lil help, someone...) on the day of my A Level results! Let's just say that my retrospective view of the exams is increasingly pessimistic; if only not so much rested on them. Agh!

Much love. xx