Hiya, I’m Jenna.

 
 

I am an illustrator based in Frome, Somerset - UK.

I’ve had a love for visual storytelling ever since I was a little girl - when I used to carry my sketchbook everywhere I went…

I was born in Stoke-on-Trent - a town known for it’s beautifully-patterned pottery. After school I studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, and then went on to enjoy a career in magazine publishing.

Nowadays I combine my fine art background with playful and colourful design, by working as an illustrator!

My Style

My work is created by combining pencil drawings with digital art and collage. I love layering my illustrations with delicate textures which have been curated from sketches and close-up photographs (of bark, moss, metal, fabrics, rust, water reflections, anything...). I can’t go for a walk for long before stopping to catch the beauty of some light on a leaf!

Picture Books

I have illustrated four children’s picture books including We Are Family by author Lucy Reynolds - you can find out more about them here.

Other illustration work…

Whether it be for a book, a billboard, a map, a booklet, website or animation… I love to illustrate and design for a variety of purposes. I’ve had wonderful feedback from The National Trust, Plastic-Free.Period, Green and Healthy Frome, The Kindness Connection, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and many more… you can find more information about my recent projects here.

Workshops

As well as illustrating and designing for a wide range of clients, I love to run art clubs and to work on independent art projects with schools and community groups too. I have a strong belief that exploring art and creativity is crucial to enriching a child’s experience at school, and so my projects are designed to help children explore new topics in a fun and creative way. You can find more about my school and community projects here.

Contact

If you would like to work with me, or have any questions, please contact me at hellojennadoodles@gmail.com

For all non-fiction and fiction picture book enquiries, please contact my wonderful agent Gill at the Bath Lit Agency: gill.mclay@btinternet.com

Instagram

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Laughing 😂 chatting 😃 signing 👌🫶 researching 🔍 , creating ✂️ dancing 🕺 singing 🎵 working with friends 🤝 making decisions 👍 drinking lots of tea! ☕️ helping each other 🥰… This illustration is my response to a spending a few wonderful
Mini-sketchbook musings. ‘September: a short story’ Beleive it or not - I never use AI 😂🥴 #silly #itchy #sketchbook #illustratorsoninstagram
This room is in my local Town Hall and usually used for meetings and wedding ceremonies (eeep🫣😃!). For one day only, this room was one small corner of an epic adventure where the kids of Frome took over the whole building and were given permission
I just saw it’s #internationalfoxday 🦊🥳 - an annual tradition when all the city foxes grab their fiddles, leave their bins behind and head to the forest for a knees up 🎻 (This picture is one from my portfolio. Thanks for the fox prompt @con
Just for fun - to show the drawing process from idea to pencil sketch to digital artwork. We found this cute little happy cafe 😍 in Nantes on holiday last year 💛☀️. The staff were closing the doors for the day, so we were too late to go inside. I
Another instalment of my ‘mini-sketchbook musings’… this time: WOULD YOU RATHER??? (Can you tell which question was created by my 6yr old?? 🤔) I’m genuinely interested to know your choices by the way… I’ve been
Anyone noticed LOADS of acorns? We did some digging and apparently it’s because 2025 is a ‘mast year’ …meaning an extra large, synchronised production of acorns! 🌱 Not sure if anyone can verify this and explain why?! Anyway,
I loved learning to linocut and print with the legendary @christophermaxpig , and when Chris announced he was hosting a group print exhibition at the end of last year, I was itching to develop a story where monochrome turn into colour 🌈 ! I displaye
More ‘mini-sketchbook musings’ you didn’t ask for 🥴 💨 . This time: “WHAT is that triangle-thingy?” and other quotes from a very long car journey… Out of interest. Has anyone else had a similar conversation in t
And the wildest dino-grin goes to…🥁🥁🥁 ?!! 😆 Brilliant to meet these two legends @andyday81 & @steven_lenton - doing their amazing rap-tactic #dinodad 🦖 event at the @rodecomedyfestival - lots of LOLs had by all 😝 #kidlit @rodecome
Just for fun☀️. My take on a tiny print by an Argentinian artist and printmaker called Margarita Galeter. I keep this little framed card on my studio desk - it was sent to me from my late great aunty when I was about 16yrs old and I’ve always
Turns out we didn’t need a wet weather warning on our agency summer picnic invitation… it was a scorcher 😮‍💨☀️! …I’m loving the sunshine but grateful that the garden was watered this overnight! 🌧️ 🙌 ☔️ 🌱
Mini-sketchbook musings: A trip to the micro-zoo I take these teeny sketchbooks everywhere. I fill them with nonsense. Sometimes I fill them with silly things my kids say… like this one where we imagined being zapped to being teeny-tiny visi
Cheerful blocks of colour and rays of sunshine from me @jennadoodles ☀️ mashed together with a gnarly mutant monochrome spray painted tree 🖤 from Paul Boswell @mutartist . The Trinity Tree mural emerges from the new lovely Trinity community garden,
Took a small pencil case with some mini-sketchbooks to France with us (which is quite restrained for me because I usually lug a whole case of pens & books around everywhere | go). Loved spending time reading and sketching ...the kids filled their

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