Since relocating to Edinburgh in late December I have hit the ground running with a selection of diverse and interesting projects.

The first project of the year involved working with a stationary company developing five ranges of papercraft kits including two for Xmas 2012.

Throughout January and February I also worked with two separate web marketing companies, for one developing a suite of 20 illustrations in a 'hand drawn' watercolour style and the other developing vector artwork for a website.

Alongside these project I worked on private client's personal photo project creating 1930s-1940s style composite images using people and props from an album of wedding photographs with a vintage theme. Some photographs had 1930s Hollywood film still mock-ups as backdrops.

Two more sets of photographs of Donald Campbell were discovered, and I was commissioned to repair and enhanced them for inclusion in a second edition of Neil Sheppard's book.

Each day in February I submitted a new drawing to '28 Drawings Later' February drawing challenge, a social networking project created by visual artist Victoria Evans. The result was an evolving, month-long, participatory online gallery which encouraged artists to see what might happen if they made time to draw every day for a month. The challenge culminated in an offline 'real world' exhibition of work at Gallery Hair, The Old Hairdressers in Renfield Lane, Glasgow City Centre.

During March I started work on an ongoing map project, initially covering Edinburgh then rolling out to other cities. I have been working on the cover artwork, landmark buildings and map icons. More will be revealed later!

Another project with a south London primary school is also underway and will be revealed later.

A further projector effects-wheel was also commissioned.

The Anti-Human Trafficking campaign for Unite was also launched on social media networks and was picked up by Amnesty International and the Women's Support Network who are now on board. Further versions of the poster were produced to be printed into large scale banners for a conference in September.

After returning from Australia mid-December I relocated to Edinburgh where I am now up and running!

During November I fulfilled a life long ambition and visited Australia. During the trip I visited Sydney, Cairns, Kuranda, Uluru, Adelaide, Kangaroo Island and Melbourne. Although partly a holiday the trip was also a fact finding mission and I undertook several projects including creating a database of photographs in the Northern Queensland Rainforest.

October kicked off with a fun project creating city landmark themed 'doodles' to be printed onto tote bags for Cambridge based design company terrossi.

On the 8th October I had the pleasure of attending the launch of Neil Sheppard's book 'Donald Campbell - The Final Speed Record Attempt' at the Ruskin Museum at Coniston Water. I was delighted to meet the author along with Donald's daughter Gina Campbell and members of the engineering team as well as receive a collector's edition box set with a dedication and a credit for enhancing 80% of the photographs.

On my return I was commissioned to create a mascot called 'Ivy' for Ivy's Hosiery, aa fantastic new online hosiery store. The character is a cute pin-up girl, drawn with a vintage watercolour style finish who features on the website and has her own blog discussing the latest fashions, ideas, and care tips for hosiery, tights and accessories.

Mid October I did some further work for interior design company Supernice and restored some additional Donald Campbell photographs which had been discovered after publication of the book.

Three further 'effects-wheels' were created for Experia Innovations.

The month rounded off with some work on a retro 50's French-style logo for mobile Swiss vegan bakery 'Babettes'.

At the start of September I was commissioned to develop a major campaign against human trafficking for Britain's largest trade union Unite. The campaign artwork will be printed onto posters and distributed as badges.

In September I also produced an editorial illustration for an online fashion magazine highlighting the treatment of models as dispensable products. The illustration was drawn in pencil then finished as a black and white pen drawing. A further five sensory 'effects wheels' were commissioned by Experia Innovations.

Five more fake sensationalist photo-montages with a theme of the International Date Line were commissioned for the satirical online newspaper.

I also had the pleasure of working on a project involving vinyl wall designs for East London based interior design company Supernice.

During August I was commissioned to create further images for the Harley Street clinic dermatology project where microscopic scans of a client's skin cells are transformed into artwork to create unique and personal contemporary art. For this second set of commissioned work I created circular cell compositions in bold colours framed by circular hand-drawn black and white borders.

Further 'effects wheels' were commissioned for sensory environments.

Five more fake sensationalist images for the satirical online newspaper were also commissioned.

Artwork in a bold and eye-catching Pop Art style was created for a forthcoming marketing campaign.

July was a busy month with a broad range of interesting work. I was invited to create mock-ups of film special effects shots for a science TV series featuring Professor Stephen Hawkin.

I became a supplier for Experia Innovations, a company who provide sensory equipment used in therapies for sensory integration and stimulation. My work for them involves creating themed multi-layer photo montages for projector effects wheels, used in wards and therapy rooms for story telling and sensory stimulation.

Another project involved creating ten humerous sensationalist images for a new online satirical newspaper. The newspaper images included imagined CCTV footage featuring ghosts of political leaders and shopping mall scenes.

June was a great month for developing hand skills and drawing with traditional media along with the opportunity to create imagery with radiograms. My 'hair' drawings have become very stylised utilising fat marker pens and dry brush strokes from chunky brushes. Further photographs from the Donald Campbell archive were enhanced including restoration, removal of camera blur and adjustments to the tonal values and colour balance which had deteriorated over the last 50 years.

During May I continued enhancing and restoring the archive of photographs for the newly re-titled book 'Donald Campbell - The Final Speed Record Attempt' by Neil Sheppard which has an expected publishing date of September 2011. I have also been working on a series of drawings inspired by the patterns created by hair which follow on from the series developed in November 2010. A line of tshirt designs with a 60s garage feel are also underway and will be marketed with the label 'Poison Voodoo'

Futher work on the Donald Campbell photo archives took place for inclusion in the forthcoming book.

March turned into a very busy and exciting month.

The most unexpected news came on 15th March when it transpired that I would spend the next nine days working with The Who, one of my favourite bands, culminating in a performance of Tommy at the Royal Albert Hall in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust on 26th March. Students from Middlesex University had been hard at work creating animations inspired by Tommy to be shown on an 8m LED screen during the 24 songs.

With so little time and the students working around the clock to deliver their work by the opening night it was incredible to see the pilot of the Tommy visuals come together.

After collating the animations remotely I joined the team at Shepperton Studios for rehearsals with Roger Daltry and his band before setting up two days later at the Royal Albert Hall on the morning of the 26th. With so little time to compile the animations and so many songs to work with, the team, including Colin Payne, Laura Carr and UVA (United Visual Artists) did a excellent job and we all attended the sold-out concert to hear Tommy being performed for the first time since 1989. The students work ranged in style from drawn animation to graphic Flash sequences, video post-production to a stop-frame animation featuring tumbling antique mannequins!

At the start of the month I was commissioned to create 10 illustrations for a property insurance company highlighting 5 claim scenarios. The illustrations are aimed at two different target audiences: landlords and student tennants. The 5 landlord illustrations were created in a semi-realistic style using complex vector gradient meshes while the illustrations targeting the students have a more humerous, cartoony feel. A sample of these can be viewed in the Digital Artwork section.

The craft supplies industry is huge at the moment with resurgence of interest in all areas of hand made items, helped in part by the vintage clothing and lifesyle trends. I was commissioned to create a range of 'shoe and handbag' line artwork which were manufactured as rubber stamps for craft and card making.

During February I continued enhancing, restoring and grading stills from archive film footage of the tragic final speed record attempt by Donald Campbell.

Further artwork for an email campaign was created for marketing the book trailer company, due to launch in spring.

Throughout January I have been working on a book trailer project for a new company launching in Los Angeles. Book trailers are a huge growth area for novels and graphic novels and take the same format as film trailers - a means to generate excitement, engage the reader and increase sales.

This month I also created line-art cartoon style factory illustrations for Cardiff based product design company Conka Design, demonstrating how they can take an idea from scratch, apply their experience and product design acumen and deliver back a finished product.

October to December were incredibly busy months with twenty two different small projects for nineteen different clients! I had the pleasure of working with the wonderful Rainbow Trust children's charity to create corporate animated Xmas ecards for their clients, the corporate version depicting a magical forest scene with wandering deer and falling snow and the more funky version featuring a slightly demented dancing Rudolph decorating his tree in a slap-stick fashion!

Miniature dogs featured strongly in the final months of 2010 with animated shih tzu, schnauser and bichon frise being created for marketing campaigns for two different clients.

The year ended with a beauty retouching project where a client's portrait photographs were enhanced, reconstructed and retouched.

Throughout October, November and December I worked on a highly enjoyable project enhancing and restoring a huge archive of vintage photographs of speed champion Donald Campbell and the Bluebird K7 for a forthcoming book, 'This Rather Stony Path - Donald Campbell's Last Record Attempt' by Neil Sheppard. The Bluebird K7 is currently being refurbished and will be housed in a new wing at Ruskin Museum in Coniston.

An informative text and photo based animation was also created for a financial advice company who create custom programmes to help repay debt. The animation covers financial advice offered by an agency, narrated by everyday people who have successfully used the service.

Mock-ups for two stage sets were created during October. The first, a contemporary Film Noir style hotel room interior was created as a backdrop for fashion models in a 'virtual photo shoot'. The second was a mock-up for a real stage set based on a Russian Art Deco theatre. The mock-up was developed into a scale diagram then constructed in wood with back-lit panels for a music video shoot.

Three digital images were also commissioned for a fascinating cellular art project called 'Inner Portraits' where dermatologists collect microscopic scans of a client's skin cells which are then used as the basis for unique contemporary art.