I grew up in Broadstairs in Kent, a small seaside town on the east coast of England. As soon as I was old enough to hold a pencil I wanted to draw, paint and make things. I remember saving up for a year so I could purchase my first camera when I was seven, and when I was nine my art teacher at school gave me a present to take home, a box of beautiful inks and a drawing book. I wrote my own books and illustrated them and even won a couple of national drawing competitions for children. I enrolled at the local art college when I was ten where they had weekend art lessons for children—needless to say, I loved it!
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