LIVE ILLUSTRATION / SKETCHNOTING
Live Illustration & Graphic Recording in France, Europe & the UK
Are you looking for a live illustrator - known as sketchnoting in France - for your next event, conference, or webinar? I’m a live illustrator and graphic recorder based in France, available to travel across Europe and the UK – or to work remotely for clients anywhere in the world.
I capture ideas, conversations and key moments in real time – whether that’s during a business summit, creative workshop, podcast or Zoom meeting. The result: a dynamic visual story your audience will remember and share.
Live illustration allows me to combine my journalism and illustration skills – listening deeply, distilling complex discussions and transforming them into clear, engaging visuals. Every project is fully customisable so your brand gets exactly what it needs.
Why Choose Me for Live Illustration
With 15+ years’ experience as a journalist, I’ve written for The Telegraph, Evening Standard, New Scientist, CNN, Cruise International, Woman & Home, NZ Herald and ZDNet (and many more) as well as industry titles such as HCM, Global Ship Technology, Future Rail, Airport Industry Review, Pharmaceutical Technology, WellToDo and Fitt Insider.
This background means I’m fluent across a range of sectors – from health and fitness to technology, aviation, pharma and maritime – and can capture live discussions with insight and accuracy.
I’m a member of the Guild of Health Writers, the British Association of Journalists and the Association of Illustrators, ensuring every commission is handled with professionalism and care.
If you'd like to read more about my journalism work, you can view my portfolio.
How My Live Illustration Works
I illustrate digitally on an iPad using Procreate, in 16:9 or A3 landscape formats, typically with up to four brand colours.
Depending on your needs, your live illustration can be:
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Projected on-screen during the event
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Created privately for post-event distribution (PDF or JPG)
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Refined afterwards to add further detail or branding
Each illustration is tailored to your event – whether corporate and word-focused or more image-led and expressive.
Book a Live Illustrator for Your Event
If you’re hosting an event, conference, or online session and want to bring ideas to life visually, I’d love to help.
I Can Also Sketch Your Data Into Visual Notes
Sometimes clients may wish to have data, such as survey or research findings, put into a visual format. Using the same technique I can work through a press release or survey to sketch note the results, resulting in a page that looks similar to a live illustration, except that it wasn't created during a live event, but it will still drawn in real-time as I was reading over the information.
This is a fast, spontaneous approach to visual note taking that works if the company needs to distribute information in a fast and fun way that gets more eyeballs on the data because of it's uniquely visual format.
Contact me to discuss your project and get a quote for live illustration, sketchnoting or visual notetaking in France, Europe, or the UK. I can also work remotely and this option means I can work with you wherever you are in the world.
Live Illustration: Handmade Bosses Listathon Event
Handmade Bosses helps creative entrepreneurs and small business owners grow their online sales. Ahead of their signature mentorship programme – the Handmade Bosses Success Academy (HBSA) – CEO Steph runs a free Listathon course, where attendees learn how to strengthen their product listings and boost visibility online.
I live illustrated Day 2 and Day 3 of the Listathon, translating the energy and insights from Steph’s presentation into dynamic visuals. These real-time illustrations offered participants an engaging visual summary of key lessons to refer back to and share after the event.
Live Illustration: NHS QI Training Session
Having covered the NHS extensively throughout my health and fitness journalism career, I wanted to explore how live illustration could help communicate complex ideas within healthcare.
This piece was created in real time during an NHS training session explaining what Quality Improvement (QI) is and how it works within the NHS. The illustration was completed on the spot, with no changes made after the event, and was immediately deliverable as a PDF.
The result is a clear, engaging graphic recording that captures the key points of the session in a single visual snapshot – helping participants and teams revisit and remember the core ideas long after the training ended.
Live Illustration: Cybersecurity Predictions for 2025
I created this live illustration while Jeff Crume discussed his cybersecurity predictions for 2025 during an online presentation. Having covered technology and innovation extensively throughout my journalism career, it was fascinating to see how many of his 2024 forecasts had already come true – adding real weight to this year’s insights.
This real-time graphic recording captured the key trends, risks and opportunities shaping the future of cybersecurity, providing an engaging visual summary of the session as it unfolded.
Live illustration is a powerful way to communicate complex technical topics, helping audiences absorb information quickly and remember it long after the event ends.
Visual Notetaking LiveCareer's Menopause Survey Results
When I received a press release detailing the results from LiveCareer's survey of 900 employed women I decided to put them into a visual poster.
I have to be clear that LiveCareer did not commission this work, but they did give permission for me to use it as an example of how I can turn report data into artful infographics (their words).
Reach out if you need a live illustrator or require your data to be transformed into an exciting visual format.