Food illustration - Edible Pansies

New food illustrations, part of the edible botanicals range. What could be better than beautiful flowers that you get to enjoy with your eyes and tummy?! :)

Food illustration - Edible Botanicals - Chives.

Kitchen garden illustrations, beautiful and tasty chives.

Some WIP pics.

The Deliciously Ella Energy Balls are nearly ready to start hitting the supermarkets and health food shops. The final packaging looks awesome, so happy to see my illustrations on such a fab product!!!

This photo was posted on Instagram by The Mae Deli. A mini full of energy balls making their debut at The wilderness festival this weekend.

And a very nice mention on twitter from Ella herself! :)

https://twitter.com/DeliciouslyElla/status/761284950389846017?lang=en-gb

Deliciously Ella Energy Ball Packaging Design

I am so excited to finally be able to share the news of this awesome commission! 

I have created the illustrations for the Deliciously Ella packaging of her yummy Energy Balls, which are soon to be sold in supermarkets and health food stores.

I am personally a big fan of Ella Mills (Deliciously Ella). She is the author of the largest read healthy food and lifestyle blog in the UK, she was awarded the Observer Food Monthy Best Food Blog award in 2015. Ella also released her first cookbook in January 2015, it is the best selling debut cookbook ever!

Ella's philosophy is all about nourishing your body with wholesome great tasting ingredients and creating a healthy lifestyle as opposed to strange fad diets!

I am also very interested in the massively important role food and nutrition plays in keeping us healthy and its ability to heal the body. Ella herself is an extremely powerful example of how this is possible. 

Ella suffered with a relatively unknown chronic illness called postural tachycardia syndrome which attacks your nervous system, it left Ella bed-bound at the age of 20! She nursed her body back to health by learning about what ingredients were good for her and how to make great tasting meals with them. I would definitely recommend checking out the Deliciously Ella blog, where you can read in more detail about her story and how she turned something so negative into a massive positive, very inspiring! 

The Energy Balls are a tasty blend of whole food ingredients, they come in three flavours, Cacao & Almond, Ginger & Cashew and Hazelnut & Raisin. I am quite sure they are going to be a massive success, a really great product, healthy and truly delicious! I speak from first hand experience :) They are perfect for when you need a healthy energy boost. 

My illustrations are part of the final packaging, designed by London based branding specialists, Ragged Edge. It was a real pleasure to work with such an amazingly talented team. All of the packaging is also bio-degradable and compostable, can't wait to see these on the shelves!

chocolate dipped ring doughnut with colourful sprinkles

A few work in progress shots of how an illustration comes together.

My chocolate dipped ring doughnut with colourful sprinkles, is part of a series of food illustrations I am working on at the moment. Stay tuned for more to come!!

British Asparagus

It's coming to the end of British Asparagus season, with such a short season (around 8 weeks) it really is a veg to treasure and eat while at it's best. I love to try and eat with the seasons if possible.

Hope you like my illustration and pattern design, celebrating great produce with a splash of super fresh spring colours.

If you would like to know more about British Asparagus then I suggest having a look at the British Asparagus website, they have lots of interesting information on why Asparagus is so great! Also some amazing recipe ideas, to help you get creative with this fab veg.

Spring Fever

I really love this time of year!!! There is positivity in the air, everywhere I look nature is blooming, new colours are emerging, I am feeling so inspired!! Loving getting outdoors and exploring the beautiful Derbyshire countryside.