The studio started in 2017 in a corner of a flat in Stockbridge, with a tilted drafting board, a tin of cheap watercolours, and a single client who'd commissioned a small herb-book illustration for the back of a tea packet. Eight years later it lives in a converted ground-floor shop in Leith, with two presses, a riso, a guillotine, a deep flat-file full of cold-press paper, and exactly enough room for six students at a workshop bench.
The work breaks roughly into thirds — editorial illustration for magazines and newspapers, picture-book interiors and covers for trade publishers, and pattern-design work for textiles and packaging. There's a soft preference for botanical subjects (pressed petals, foragers' mushrooms, garden herbs) but the studio is happy outside that lane when the brief asks for it.
Most pieces start in real paint — gouache for editorial, watercolour for botanical work — scanned at 1200dpi and finished in Procreate or Photoshop. Pure-digital is welcome too, especially for picture-book interiors with tight production schedules. The studio tries to keep at least one slow project on the bench at all times: a personal zine, a series, a book that hasn't yet found its publisher.
Everything that ships from the studio is signed in pencil, packed by hand, and posted from the corner shop two streets over. Every commission and every print is logged in a small leather notebook that's almost two thirds full and getting thicker each month.
