About Me
 

Senior Animator. Illustrator. Storyteller. Occasional cowgirl.

I’m a Bristol-based Senior CG Animator with over 20 years’ experience bringing characters, creatures and worlds to life.
 

I’ve worked across VFX, commercials, feature animation, game cinematics, VR, museum installations and theme park rides, for studios and clients in the UK and around the world.
 

I love animation in all its forms, particularly character animation, where a small movement, expression or gesture can tell you everything you need to know about a character.
 

But animation isn’t the only thing I make. Alongside my freelance career, I write and illustrate children’s books and develop my own characters and stories. My first two self-published books feature Feral Beryl, a rather unruly character loosely inspired by my beloved old dog, Beryl.

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A slightly unconventional route into animation
 

I graduated in Animation from Newport in 2000 and moved to London in search of the bright lights. I found them at Framestore, where I started as a Runner and worked my way through Motion Tracking and Junior Animation before becoming a fully-fledged Animator.
 

After a few years working on some fantastic projects, including a brief stint in New York, I decided that being an animator might be a rather good way to see the world.
 

In 2005, I moved to Sydney to work on Happy Feet.
 

Australia also gave me the opportunity to pursue another lifelong ambition: becoming a cowgirl. After finishing the film, I swapped animation for horses and cattle and spent six months working as a Jillaroo on a cattle station in North West New South Wales.
 

It was quite a change of pace.
 

I eventually returned to London and Framestore, but found myself missing the countryside — and wondering whether city life was really for me.

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Finding my place in Bristol
 

Two years later, I was offered six weeks’ work at Aardman.
 

Six weeks turned into two years, working on Arthur Christmas. I made wonderful friends, met my partner Kyle, bought a horse and a flat, aquired a dog, and somehow managed to settle down.
 

I’ve been based in Bristol ever since.
 

I now work as a freelance animator, primarily from my home studio. I love the flexibility of freelance life and working remotely, while Bristol’s excellent transport links mean I can still easily get to London or wherever a project takes me.
 

Animation, illustration & making my own things
 

In 2021, I was awarded a Merit in Children’s Picture Book Animation from the London Art College. That experience encouraged me to explore my own storytelling and illustration work more seriously.
 

Since then, I’ve written, illustrated and self-published three children’s books featuring Feral Beryl. Inspired by my old dog Beryl, who sadly died in 2023, Feral Beryl has become a lovely way of keeping some of her spirit alive.
 

I enjoy moving between animation, illustration and storytelling — whether I’m helping bring someone else’s vision to life or creating something entirely my own.
 

After more than 20 years in animation, I’m still curious about where the next project might take me.
 

Preferably somewhere with good coffee, interesting characters and the occasional horse.