Step into my holiday studio! Discover how a spontaneous Cornish coastal walk and delicate seed heads inspired my very first pattern collection. I'm sharing the full journey: from fleeting thoughts and gouache sketchbook studies to using Post-it notes for pattern repeats and digital finalisation in Procreate.

Drawing boats has long been a mini ambition of mine. Many times I’ve visualised the process of wanting to capture their distinctive shapes and bright colours on a page. Keen to put this ambition into action I went to Beadnall, on the Northumberland coast. With sketchbook in hand, I found a vantage point overlooking the harbour and began to draw; putting into practice what I saw in my mind’s eye.