Who is hattie stewart

“I value my personal time with my work most highly as it informs almost all of my other work and projects,” she says on the importance of her sketchbook practice. Rather than adding to her sketchbooks every day like some illustrators, Hattie has “short creative bursts a couple of times a year for a week or so.” From these bursts, Hattie generates enough ideas and themes to keep her going for the next year or so. “My sketchbooks are sacred spaces to me – they represent my past, present and future, and help me take stock of where I’m at and where I want to go,” she goes on to say. “They are the only things I would save in a fire as they show the thread of my creative journey, like a diary, which is pretty cool.”

Her sketchbooks offer a space to be free from worry and overthinking, letting the fluidity of illustration take hold amidst the blank pages. “I just work things out in my World mental health day!