Hi, I'm Moira also known as Moirarae or Moiraraecarter around the internet, confused please don’t be …Rae is my middle name. Home is by the River Dee, Chester, in Handbridge, near a shrine to the Roman Goddess Minerva ...she's the one with the owl. It’s also where I work ...in a very colourful house with huge tulips up the front room wall.

I love working with a dip pen, and that my choice of medium has an impact on what comes out of me, that I'm not totally in control and that there can be happy accidents along the way ...the serendipity of the process. It's a collaboration between me, my muse and my medium – pen, pencil, watercolour, gouache – whatever is at hand at that moment. It's such a feeling of freedom compared to the tight preciseness of working with a mouse.

I also love to sew, and when I found Spoonflower.com I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. It took me no time at all to open a shop, fill it with juicy goodness and start sewing and selling. You'll find that many of the designs are computer generated, but there is a definite shift back towards the hand drawn element and keeping it simple.

"Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity" Charles Mingus

Oh, and by the way ...did I mention I drive a Morris Minor?!