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Writing - Kim Chamberlain MA Hons Linguistics, Dip CG, Dip FJ, NVQ, ATM, APS

 

Writing and communication has always been a passion for me, starting when I used to make books for my grandmother as a small child. I would draw pictures of robins, trees, flowers and the like, sellotape them into a hand-made book, and write stories about them for her.

Since then I don't  seem to have stopped writing - books, newsletters, articles, speeches, training programmes, letters, shopping lists, reminder notes to my husband, little notes to my children, poems for people's birthdays, university theses, emails galore, notes at seminars I attend... 

I love working with children's books. I particularly love the atmosphere that can be created within a book.

Originally from England (Liverpool, in fact) I moved to Scotland, then Wales and back to England where I lived until 1995. My husband Jon and I emigrated to New Zealand, where I set up a business called Successful Speaking www.successfulspeaking.co.nz

We are currently on sabbatical in Uganda, East Africa.

I spend my time working as a writer, professional speaker, and trainer in communication skills, along with being a wife and mother.

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Illustrations - Jon Chamberlain

 

jon.jpg (67408 bytes)I have always had a great interest in things creative, particularly drawing, and especially the graphic art styles used in comics, etchings, Japanese woodblock prints and art nouveau, exemplified by the work of Beasley, Mucha, Hokusai and Moebius.

Being a practitioner in both the fields of technology and creativity, their recent convergence in a number of disciplines, has made sense of what I had always thought of an ‘odd’ collection of interests on my part.

To develop my latent creativity, I trained in different forms of art disciplines including cartooning, water colours, comic drawing, life drawing, print-making, pen and ink drawing.

Out of this creative exploration came various projects and examples, some of which are displayed in the gallery sections of this site.  

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Chamberlain Creative

Jon & Kim Chamberlain

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