What is the hidden meaning behind what we draw on misty windows? As a child, doodling on car windows was one of the few ways of keeping occupied on a long journey, in between asking “are we there yet?” . When you get older, your time may still be spent playing Banksy on a misty bus window, […]
There’s a lot more to all that seemingly random scribbling than meets the eye. How do you doodle, and what do your doodles say about you? Is doodling good for you, and what does it all mean? Who knew that doodling could be so therapeutic? Or that our frivolous squiggles and lightweight childish drawings could […]
So very excited to have been invited onto The One Show on National Doodle Day (in aid of Epilepsy Awareness) to talk about doodling, and analyse Frank Skinner, Rob Beckett and Angela Scanlon’s doodles. Click here to see a video snapshot of the moment >
The dawning of 11th February 2019 heralded my ‘live’ debut TV appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain! Kate Garraway and Richard Madeley interviewed me on Meghan’s handwritten letter to her father, and Viscountess Julie Montagu – the American Royal Wedding correspondent – joined me in the chair. Watch the YouTube version here > (I’m talking […]
It was a privilege to be invited by the BBC to analyse doodles for National Doodle Day. I collaborated with Adebanji Alade (who incidentally provided the fantastic drawing in the headline). We talked about the value of doodling and the meaning behind doodles. Adebanji is a prolific sketcher, a motivational speaker and Art Coach, and […]
Jamie Mcloughlin, Researcher at BBC Education, approached me requesting a story about the scientific aspect of analysing doodles for their educational Bitesize website. This was timed to coincide with National Doodle Day. We compiled a Q&A. Three doodles also came from well-known names in BBC’s Media City for me to analyse: Martin Dougan (one of the […]
Delighted to have been invited by Lauren PG-Geall, an MA Magazine Journalism student at University of London, to write a feature on Journalist’s doodles for their alumni magazine XCity. This is The Drawn Identity. Click to read article here > And here’s the unedited version of what I said: (Please note that I use […]
It seems everyone’s talking about doodles at the moment! So I was delighted when James Hazell invited me onto his show on BBC Radio Suffolk this afternoon, and we had an interesting dialogue about doodling. . Let’s be clear about this: Doodles are simple, uncontrived drawings. They are rarely works of art. But what makes them so special is […]
As a fully qualified practising graphologist (and accredited tutor of the British Institute), I analyse handwriting to uncover what it says about the person behind the writing. From just a few handwritten sentences, my work reveal people’s core personality and their fluid behaviour – how they think, feel, and operate – shining a practical light […]
Doodling is proactive daydreaming, helping us to unwind and de-stress and drum up light bulb moments! Absent-minded doodles are like Freudian slips revealing our deepest secrets and desires. The shapes, objects, and colour pens we use all offer up clues, and sometimes, it’s not so much what we draw that matters, but how we draw […]