Impressive illustrator: Georgina Hill

She greets me with a beautiful smile, and a 3-week baby in tow, to her lovely home in Singapore. We decide to spend an afternoon chatting about the work that she does.

I am somewhat familiar with Georgina’s work. I did browse her portfolio before meeting her, but I am excited to see it in person.

Surprisingly, Georgina, has never studied art or design. In fact, she was a diplomat who has lived in England, France and Switzerland, working for the government. She also worked in government relations with a pharmaceutical company. But here she is now, totally focused on design, a passion she carries from childhood. As a kid, she loved doodling, be it cards for family, or sketches of a ski trip for friends!

So how did she get here? “I did some artwork for a friend’s friend, who asked me how much I would charge for my work. That’s when I realized that I could turn my passion into something profitable,” says Georgina. This was four years ago, and she’s never looked back. She poses with one of her works:

Thus, came about Georgina Hill Illustrations, which has done well for her in the last few years. A lot of her clients are ‘corporates’ for whom she does something called ‘live-scribing’ or visual summaries. So what I understand, live-scribing is essentially putting words in pictures. Clients like Unilever, Dulux hire her to attend workshops, corporate meets, and summarize these events through illustrations. Seriously cool. Georgina follows Mike Rohde, who has written a lovely book on visual note taking.

One of the live scribes she did for a TEDx event.

Prior to her baby, Georgina did a course on Fashion Illustration at La Salle University, Singapore.  I take a glimpse of her sketches and they are so wonderfully creative.

She admits, that what gives her most pleasure is the work she does for private clients. She recently made a lovely illustration for a 40^th birthday present. She also enjoys doing wedding invites and bespoke baby announcements.

For now, stationery has been her focus, but moving forward, we may see her illustrations in other goods like textiles. She would rather license her prints though, rather than create a warehouse of goods.

Her style is clean, detail oriented and minimalistic. Her work is not a riot of colours. Instead, black and white lines dominate her work, with a dash of red that she adds in a unique way. We definitely love that!

You can follow her at www.facebook.com/georginahillustrations

{Photos by My Red Palette and Georgina Hill}