Illustrator Jonathan Edwards on how his travel sketchbooks are bringing back memories of places and experiences On family holidays, my parents would give me a book of A4 paper to keep me quiet. I’m ...

The year was 1979 and I was lost. Not completely so, but, on balance, I was a bit of a mess. If my life were a pie chart, there would be a slice of about one-eighth that would represent the part of my ...

In quarantine, I’ve faced down loneliness and fear with paper and ink The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.

I’ve lived much of my life with anxiety and depression, including the negative feelings – shame and self-doubt – that seduced me into believing the stigma around mental illness: that people knew I ...

Friends of mine from childhood, high school and college remember me as someone who loved to draw. Armed with reams of continuous pin fed dot matrix computer paper from my father’s workplace, my ...