Welcome Love!
My name’s Java.
I’m an illustrator, writer, food and table stylist and collector of objects. A human scrapbook of sorts. I live in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK, with my partner Jon, our two small children and a cat called Nutmeg.
Previous to this, I grew up between London, Scotland, France and Spain, finally ending up in Manchester UK for fifteen years, where I worked as an actor and later as a theatre agent. All of these glorious places have informed my current work and aesthetic.
After having our first son, I left my work as an agent and decided to shift my focus onto my two favourite things: writing and drawing. Along the way I realised that I had also always had a passion for photography and telling stories with objects and that I could incorporate it into my work.
Because of this, I have several different elements to my work, which I try to explain in the various areas of this website as I am aware it can be confusing when I try and explain what I do.