Pre-Order my London zine: 'My London Palette' Today!
It’s here! I came back from a work trip to find the print proof for my London zine, which has almost become more like a book. It’s 40 pages including the cover. I just kept adding pages, and in the end this is just a small selection. It’s a testament to how personal this zine, book, zine-book thing is.
The drawings were made between 2014-2023, but most of them I started in 2019, when we knew we’d be moving away from London. While we made the decision to go and move closer to our families, I was absolutely heartbroken to leave. If I’m being honest, for a long time I had imagined never leaving, I felt so at home in London. We had even looked (loosely) at buying a house, but in the end Brexit/rent/childcare/and mostly a very sick child made us decide otherwise. We’ve not regretted the decision as much as it’s been a process of mourning for me, personally. We moved to Utrecht, Covid hit, and I grieved my old life. And, like many of you, I also mourned the time passing by in what felt like a vacuum. My kids growing older and more Dutch by the day, but us not building the life or support structures we’d moved ‘back home’ for.
So while locked down, I compiled this book of drawings from our life in London. It’s a love letter to the city, it’s people, and the nearly five years we spent calling the city home. There’s not much text, just places that meant something to me so I don’t forget.
You can pre-order the book now via my Etsy shop. Orders ship out around the second week of May.
While you’re there, feel free to add any of these other zines and prints to your cart:
