This is the official blog of Theklickkat, thank you for coming to visit.

The main purpose of this website will be to create a gallery of daily sketches which give an insight into my day. I like to keep these illustrations as relatable events, which everyone comes across in their day to day life. But if you are to follow my sketches, you need to know my story:

“Black and white never was my colour”

As a stubborn and free spirited 19 year old, I wasn’t going to follow the crowd of sheep through university to do a pointless degree to obtain a pointless job. I crave freedom and avoid commitment. So when I finished my A Levels (Fine Art, English Language and Philosophy) I went off to do a year of Art and Design Foundation at Bournville School of Art, it was a free course, an essential platform if I wanted to do a degree in art, and most of all it gave me time to try and figure out what i wanted to do.

When I first started I had already decided that I wanted to specialise in visual communication and maybe with a dash of animation, however life disagreed with that, and I ended up in a studio of fashion designers, I was perplexed, confused and too closed minded to see how brilliant this would be.

“Go Forth and Paint”

I found other illustrators and animators within the group who had ended up on the same path as me, they were the two most talented illustrators I had ever come across and were brilliantly supportive. The fashion designers were fascinating, the process of finding inspiration from something so far away from fashion, such as a mushroom, and turning it into a line of clothing. The designers also gave me the chance to try out modelling, but that’s a different story! The best person though was my tutor Jo, she was a non nonsense, fashion designer, illustrator, animator and the most perfect person to develop me as an artist.

I had the chance to be mentored by a successful and still developing artist, who was so valuable, and told me that my style of art was highly commercial, but I had to develop it further and trust in it.

“The World Doesn’t Have Enough Coffee For This”

During this year I had also been teaching myself the final A level year of Philosophy, and applied to university to do Philosophy and Linguistics, with the idea of being a forensic linguist; a far off path to animation. I was accepted by the University of York, but by the end of the summer I had deferred it for a year in order to go to Canada.

The Canada idea came from a summer of hardship, I had worked as a groom on a showjumping yard which I had helped out at for the past 2 years, however, all the people who I loved and admired showed their true colours during that summer and almost drove me to my limit. It took a month to recover physically and mentally, but in doing so it gave me strength to put my dream of going to Canada into reality.

This then leads to another one of life’s tangents, I found out there was a job going to work with Hitachi in Wiltshire, I was currently living in my life time home near Birmingham, this job would provide me with the money to get myself to Canada and would give me incredibly valuable work experience and life experience, as I would be moving into a house basically by myself for 6 months.

“How Did I Get Here?”

I got the job and have been there for 4 months now, it’s had its challenges, but it’s also had its perks, the people and environment there is incredible, but I was really struggling with the office life of not moving and that dreaded repetition.

So now I’ve rediscovered the joy of self motivated art, I don’t have to do it, I just do it because I enjoy it and it gives me a sense of freedom, challenge and importance.

The way I have developed myself back into art is by doing a daily sketch, finding inspiration in simple daily events and activities to share and connect with the rest of the world.

Enjoy!