Jess is an Oxford-based creative director, artist, writer, editor and lover of all things mending, making, recycling and growing.

Her passions lie in creative storytelling and the sharing of lived experience narratives, alongside disrupting and reimagining the ways in which we work, what "success" looks like, and believes strongly in the importance of centering rest and play in all that we do. 

Isolde is a London-based animation director, producer, editor, artist, and queer creative.

She has an eye for bringing together talented teams of individuals to make meaningful work. The drive to set up Woven Ink came out of a passion for working with social change activists and organisations, and the desire to work in an ethical, nurturing and supportive environment.

Outside of Woven Ink Isolde has a playful performance practice rooted in social research, mixing up the disciplines of lip-synch, video, cabaret and performance art.

Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen

Beatrice is an artist, illustrator, live scribe and graphic facilitator with a strong interest in Applied Linguistics, especially Discourse Analysis, which she studied to Masters level.

Beatrice’s main practice is illustration and while she loves working on her own in the studio, she also really enjoys combining this with her fascination with spoken discourse and the fun of working in a team when live-scribing. Cohenbaum.com

Giulia Coppola

Giulia is a graphic designer, fashion illustrator, animator, scribe and art director, specialising in character design, portraiture and caricatures.

Since 2008, she has worked for a variety of publishers and graphic design and fashion agencies; most notably designing and illustrating the book Whodunit, Blue Cat?, published in 2013, by Fermoeditore. She has also directed exhibitions for The Museum of Illustration, a leading cultural association in Milan. Since moving to the UK in 2014 she has brought her artistic knowledge and elegant style into the world of visual minutes and animation. Giulia graduated at the European Institute of Design of Milan.

Blanche Ellis

Blanche uses live illustration to facilitate conversations and create beautiful, memorable visuals for events. She also works in animation, graphic design and creates rich picture murals for those who want to tell their story in an elegant and accessible way. Fascinated by the impact of combining words and images on our ability to think and communicate creatively, Blanche has worked internationally across a wide range of sectors from conferences and strategy meetings to trade shows, from art events and festivals to private celebrations. She also has her personal creative practice exploring the world more intimately through figure and form and with traditional techniques of draughtsmanship and oil painting to be found at BlancheEllis.com

Ada Jusic

Born 1987 in Sarajevo, Ada came to the UK as a refugee in the early 90's. Very early on she was fascinated with image and storytelling, going on to study illustration to a Master's degree level in London.

Ada is a professional illustrator, animator and designer. She has been working freelance for over 6 years for a wide range of both corporate and grassroots clients and believes that illustration should involve asking questions, looking and listening; it shouldn't just be decoration. 

May Kindred-Boothby 

May is an Emmy nominated frame by frame animator based in Bristol. She has spent the last 6 years specialising in animation for documentaries, largely focusing on important subjects that are culturally and personally sensitive. She always endeavours to approach her subject matter with awareness, imagination and craft. Her clients range from charities to independent filmmakers as well as larger organisations such as the BBC.

Mathilde Laillet

Mathilde is a French comic artist based in Angoulême. She alternates working as a layout or storyboard artist for animated TV series (Les Culottées/Brazen, Romantisme), as well as doing comics, illustrations, and independent animated shorts.

Her first short comic "J'arrive!" was showcased during the Shortbox Comics Fair of 2022, and she is currently working on adapting her second short story "Birds of the Storm" as a graphic novel. She loves to navigate between moving and still images, the language of comics and animation in constant dialogue in her practice.  She studied in Paris; Illustration at Renoir and Animation at Gobelins.

Vicky Long

Vicky works as a consultant and facilitator across the creative industries. Her chief interest is in organisational and cultural change.

She also has a creative practice - studiolong.co.uk - initiated a couple of years ago following a long held interest in storytelling through the performing and visual arts. Before that, Vicky worked as a producer, commissioning creatives and developing diverse programmes of work in partnership with some of the country’s leading cultural institutions. The content of this work most often involved an invite towards some kind of sociopolitical change.

Caroline Rudge

Caroline is a professional artist / illustrator based in Wiltshire, specialising in painting, printmaking and stop-motion animation. Her love of experimentation has led to a diverse animation style - ranging from paint-on-glass, claymation to paper-cutout stop motion.

Her work has been shown worldwide in exhibitions and film festivals, and she has worked on animation projects for high-profile clients including The Royal College of Midwives, CBBC and Amanda Palmer & Neil Gaiman.

Roberto Sitta

Roberto is an Italian contemporary illustrator, graphic recorder, visual minute artist and animator, with a strong passion for visual thinking.

He has worked for several Italian visual art firms, magazines and non-profit groups. Notably the Amo La Vita ONLUS association in Milan, where he worked with cancer patients as an artist in residence, creating illustrations in response to conversations and interactions with patients, which was then developed into a visual diary, gaining great success in the Italian illustration field. Since moving to the UK in 2013, he has worked with various visual communication and digital marketing agencies, for a diverse range of clients. Roberto is a graduate of the European Institute of Design of Milan.

Badj Whipple

Badj is a constant creative. With a deep knowledge of photography and the full Adobe Suite he is able to bring ideas to life.  He has worked on a huge range of projects from directing music videos and documentaries to animations and 3D rendering. He is always keen for a challenge and experimentation, this combined with his wide range of skills makes him a great person to collaborate with.

When not working on digital content he loves cooking and playing music.

Pip and Cai

Joy and wellbeing support.