Creative Portfolio

All Finley Fox wants to do is play with his friends, but covered in mud he is unable to do so. With the germ monster lurking in the back, Finley has to make a decision; does he continue to jump in muddy puddles or will he get clean and have fun! With the help of the wise old owl, Finley learns that washing and cleaning is not all that bad, and with that he is able to play with his friends until the sun goes down, and the germ monster becomes no more.

Artwork created for the educational charity “Settle Stories”.

“Finley Fox and the Germ Monster”

A colorful cartoon forest scene with trees, flowers, and a small lion cub playing in a mud puddle.
Digital illustration of two autumn leaves, one green and the other brown with hints of green, against a yellow and orange textured background.
A colorful cartoon scene of a forest with trees displaying autumn orange leaves, a grassy hill, pink flowers, and a black and white dog with large eyes standing among the trees.
Colorful cartoon illustration of a fox wearing a yellow collar swimming in a stream, smiling with closed eyes, in a lush yellow and green landscape with tall trees, bushes, and pink flowers
Cartoon scene of a fox sneezing with an 'Achoo' speech bubble in a forest with trees, green grass, small pink flowers, and small bushes. A cute black-spotted tree is peeking from behind a tree.
Cartoon illustration of a woodland scene with a fox, rabbit, squirrel, and a lion-like creature sitting on a grassy area near trees with blue sky visible through the branches.
Colorful cartoon scene of a forest with trees, grass, flowers, and four cute animals: a tiger with spots sitting with a sad face, a small wolf or dog looking at the tiger, a squirrel, and a rabbit sitting on a tree trunk. The background features tall trees and a blue sky with some clouds.
A colorful, cartoon-style landscape with a yellow rolling hill filled with small purple flowers and green plants, a bright blue sky with a large yellow sun in the top left corner, a shining star-shaped object in the sky emitting bright yellow and pink rays, and a few birds flying in the distance.

Landscape Work

“Fuzzy Feelings” is based on the exploration of emotion through colour, texture, shape and narrative within a neurodiverse profile. The work is rooted in personal experience and explores themes of creative expression, self-understanding and identity. The key focus of the work is to be used as a tool in the understanding of emotional differences and the validation of feelings for young children, as well as learning how to respond to the world around them. Neurodiversity is not often portrayed in a positive manner both in society and in literature, this project aims to challenge that narrative and showcase a different side of neurodiversity.

Within each work, the illustrations are used to reflect the emotions that the characters are experiencing rather than being explicitly stated. This creates somewhat of a challenge or game in which the reader can decipher the emotion through visual clues within the shape, colour and texture, as well as the context of the images. In doing so this helps emotional and intellectual development and understanding in an artistic and literary sense, it brings forth the idea that what can be seen is what is felt.

“Fuzzy Feelings”

Client
Aberystwyth School of Art

A colorful cartoon illustration of a child roller skating with a big smile, surrounded by fireworks, green stars, and party favors on a pink background.
A cartoon-style illustration of a young person with short hair, covering their face with their hands, surrounded by black tentacle-like shapes and glowing purple outlines on a dark background, creating a surreal and intense atmosphere.
A young boy with blue hair and large eyes, looking worried or sad, sitting among dark blue and gray clouds with raindrops and seagulls in the background, creating a gloomy weather scene.
A colorful illustration of a dragon with red, orange, and black scales, an angry expression, and flames surrounding it, against an orange background. A cartoon boy with black hair and an angry face is gripping the dragon.
A cartoon baby with yellow hair and wearing blue and yellow pajamas, kneeling on the green ground, holding a large sun-shaped object with a face and rays of light, surrounded by clouds and tiny stars in the sky.
A pink animated teddy bear cartoon with a large head, big black nose, and a small black heart-shaped nose, holding a little girl in colorful pajamas with heart patterns, with pink background and floating pink hearts, balloons, and a small dog next to