It’s active, performative and happens live. Visuals unfold as your audience looks on. Key words, concepts, and visual metaphors bring your message to life in real-time, increase retention, and provide your team with a colourful take-away they will actually want to revisit.

I’ve worked with Uber, Audi, Volkswagen, Scholastic, local community organizations, facilitators, and more. Contact me for rates and availability.


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While your speaker presents, I actively listen and catch the high points and big ideas in both words and images. Your audience is engaged and excited to see how the drawing captures what's being said. Attention and Retention soar. 
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When your speaker is finished, you keep a dynamic visual record people WANT to review and revisit again and again.

This can happen on paper, as pictured, or can be a digital projection (either live or virtually anywhere in the world), that can be cropped, clipped and reprinted for your staff, clients, stakeholders, or fans. 

Drawing live at Stanford in collaboration with Stanford Journalism Fellow Veronica Chambers. We worked together to create something new: a visual series based on her interviews with prominent journalists (the next slide is an sample from our project). Contact me to discuss ways we can create new work together.

Graphic recording based on audio interviews between Stanford Journalism Fellow Veronica Chambers, and radio journalist Gabe Spitzer.  See the whole interview document here. 

Hire me to draw, sketchnote or make a graphic record for you. Contact me for rates and availability.

Client: Wider Horizons Alumni Magazine

This was a special collaboration with the award winning Alumni magazine. Rather than print their Valedictorian's moving speech in full, I worked with Editor Lisa Kozleski to condense the speech, which I then illustrated and hand-lettered. The result is somewhere between an article, a graphic recording and a short comic, and was nominated for Best Illustration by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association. 

Client: Scholastic

Wall sized paper illustration from the Scholastic 60th celebration. Attendees contributed their answers to several prompts which I drew into this mural over the evening. Too large for one image - scroll or click to the next to see the entire thing. 

Client: Scholastic

Wall sized paper illustration from the Scholastic 60th celebration. Attendees contributed their answers to several prompts which I drew into this mural over the evening.

Client: LINK - SAIT Alumni Magazine

A mysterious package recovered in a campus renovation began a personal journey. LINK's editor reached out to bring an equally personal touch to the article. Hand-lettering, and illustration mixed with archival photographs resulted in something between an illustrated article, a graphic recording and a collaged diary entry. An incredibly fun piece to work on. 

Client: LINK - SAIT Alumni Magazine

A mysterious package recovered in a campus renovation began a personal journey. LINK's editor reached out to bring an equally personal touch to the article. Hand-lettering, and illustration mixed with archival photographs resulted in something between an illustrated article, a graphic recording and a collaged diary entry. An incredibly fun piece to work on. 

Page one of my sketchnotes from the keynote with Effie Brown and Jenny Lumet. Bindercon is a conference for women and non-gender conforming writers. It's the best. See full notes from this talk, and the conference HERE.

What are Sketchnotes? 

Instead of being visible while drawing, sketchnotes are drawn from the audience, and presented after the fact. They provide a fantastic visual and type record best suited to presentations where having a graphic recorder may not be ideal or possible, i.e. A presentation with it's own visuals,  sensitive material, a small presentation space, or a presenter who is not comfortable with the spectacle. 

Hire me to sketchnote your event. Contact me for rates and availability.

From the panel talk Writing Cultural Identity.  Bindercon is a conference for women and non-gender conforming writers. It's the best. See all sketchnotes from this conference HERE.

Hire me to sketchnote your event. Contact me for rates and availability.

You've probably seen white board illustration videos online, where a hand draws along with a voice over. That's just the jumping off point. Illustrated, animated videos bring music, colour and life to your message, and can be shared with trainees, stakeholders, customers and community members into the future.  They're a perfect platform for Tutorials, Education, Training, Advertising, Activism... your imagination is the limit. 

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Client: The Galt Museum & Archive

I illustrated and animated archived audio interviews from residents on their experiences with Prohibition in Alberta. This style is a good option for organizations that may not have budget for more extensive animation.

Roles: Producer, storyboard artist & Illustrator. An animated introduction to Feminist Intersectionality.

Hand drawn elements mix with photographic resources, pattern and colour to evoke a child's experience in this educational promotion piece for Unicef Canada. Animated by Aaron Dawson. Concept, Storyboards, Art and Direction by Gillian Goerz. May, 2018.

Art & design for the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO). Animation by Henry Sansom.

Illustrated poster for the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. Animated by Henry Sansom.