Elizabeth Watson

My illustrations have featured in many places over the years.

I have taken countless private commissions and have worked with many brands on digital design and development.

Some of these brands are - the Sherborne Times, Sherborne Prep School, Olive’s Kitchen, N-EST, and Elliscombe House.

I have designed leaving gifts, brand logos, shop icons, book covers and event posters.

I work with pen, ink and watercolour and within digital programmes.

Over the last 15 years, I have worked in creating digital content for entrepreneurs and luxury brands, and have a passion for start-ups and individuals who want to make a stand in the world.

I understand what it takes to start a business, build a strong identity and unique narrative, and how to grow and adapt within the ever-changing trends of our very digital world.

Community is everything - connected we grow.

I’m a qualified life coach and work with hypnosis techniques, meditation and mindfulness, NLP and The Laws of the Mind. I have worked largely, and effectively, within releasing default-setting patterns within the neurodiverse brain.

Specialising in fear-release, I understand how to work through anxiety and fear-based patterns.

With Big-Picture thinking and a highly-developed skillset, I have success in supporting leaders, managers and CEO's; an asset to business growth, expression and mindset for success.

My coaching is spiritual, grounding and moving. It’s about asking the right questions and finding the right resources.

I have run several workshops over the years and have teach both in-person and online.

My classes are designed to encourage confidence, extend your skills and enjoy the chance to explore and develop your own style and ideas.

Working with me - a practicing artist, coach and mentor - at a one to one level offers a unique opportunity to make some inspirational artwork alongside gaining personal support, advice and guidance. Classes are tailor-made to help guide and support each student individually.

One to One Classes (available from ages 8+) are great if you - are developing your portfolio/sketchbook, want to affirm and develop your own style, want to gain confidence, want to extend your skills and techniques, just love art and want to do more of it!!

*Optional, but encouraged - Booking at least 3 consecutive weeks is enormously beneficial to supporting self-sketching studies and allowing for the discussion of this.

In December 2021, I held my first exhibition - Life in Illustration - in Sherborne.

It all starts somewhere.
Before I started using my signature-style dippy-nib pen and ink, alongside glorious shades of watercolour, I would mostly sketch with a very fine nib pen (a particularly specific one of which I had to have several because I’m prone to loosing them) and I have been inspired by many artists - Quentin Blake particularly, but also Sue Lewington.

I studied fine art, illustration and mixed-media to A Level, before venturing into the world of Broadcasting, and have always had a love of life drawing; particularly people.

I love to sketch with charcoal and I absolutely love to create huge boards of acrylic. I can also sketch with thread using free-motion machine embroidery.