As a child, and teenager, I kept sketchbooks, dozens of them. I’d fill them with drawings and poems, and clippings from theatre or exhibitions I’d seen. I kept matchbooks in there, and cinema stubs and little love notes from my friends. I made collages from fashion magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. And scribbled my name in every font you can imagine. When I came across the sketchbooks of British artist, Catherine Cullis this morning, I felt inspired to start keeping my own again. Hers are really lovely to look at, as is her work. Have a look around. Maybe we could all keep sketchbooks, instead of relying so much on our phones.

