Testimonials:

“I’m blown away with the job you’ve done for us today. I’m monitoring the event on social and the images I’m seeing come through are stunning. People love what you did and you brought the concept and event to life flawlessly.”

Chris Clements

Creative Director – Spredfast Inc.

“We were delighted to find Blanche Ellis in this wide world, to help us shape how our global team understands, articulates, visualises and ultimately communicates an ambitious, but complex, pilot initiative. Her open approach to exploration – infused with generosity, curiosity and creativity – combined with her artistic skill resulted in a series of visual ‘working’ documents that we are actively using as a team to test and share our thinking.  I couldn’t recommend her enough.”

Becky Schutt

Head of Developing Inclusive and Creative Economies (DICE) | Arts and Society
British Council 

“Working with Blanche has been a breeze! I came to her with a big idea of visualizing some key concepts for our new leadership development digital portal. She quickly grasped the idea and concepts and distilled them into nuanced images that not only conveyed our message but also our values, with a wonderful storyline throughout. I look forward to working with Blanche again in the future!”

Debora Gallo

Learning & Development Manager EMEA at Netflix

“Blanche is a joy to work with and her incredible artworks uniquely capture the power of networks and connections, turning them into visual mementos that leave a permanent impression on those involved. Highly recommended!”

Charlie Fraser

Social Entrepreneur | Co-founder of TERN

“We hired Blanche to create a large mural for our conference room. We wanted the mural to tell our story and engage not only our customers and suppliers but also our employees. Blanche was meticulous in learning and understanding who we are, our growth and purpose. She created a magical masterpiece that depicts the essence of our company and everyone in it, with whimsical drawings that come to life, and tell our story PERFECTLY. Everyone loves it, and can’t take their eyes away until they absorb all the joy that the mural has to offer. Thank you Blanche. We will highly recommend you any chance that we get!”

Wendy Von Fries

President & Founder, Prelude Events, Spain & France

‘Blanche worked with us to support the illustrations  for the development of our global theory of change for social enterprise at the British Council. Blanche is incredibly intuitive working with topics and subject matter that were alien. She listens well and translates this into stunning drawings that have illustrated our work brilliantly. She is talented, perceptive and quick to take on feedback and make edits. A delight to work with.’

Juliet Cornford
Senior Consultant, British Council, Global Social Enterprise Programme

“It’s just wonderful! Thanks so much for all of your hard work on this. It’s really lovely to see our research and the women’s stories come to life in this way.”

Dr Abigail Easter

Kings College London

“Ha sido un placer trabajar con Blanche. Nos explicó de manera muy detallada cómo era el proceso para trabajar con ella y no sólo lo cumplió si no que estuvo en todo momento pendiente de las revisiones y finalmente todo se hizo súper rápido! Hemos quedado encantadas con el resultado y esperamos que hayan muchas más colaboraciones!”

Translation: “It has been a pleasure working with Blanche. She gave us a detailed explanation of her working process and not only fulfilled it, and was at all times attentive to the feedback, but the process was completed ahead of schedule! We were delighted with the result and we hope there are many more collaborations!”

Natalia Crespo

Founder – Bee The Planet

“Through her illustrations, Blanche Ellis skilfully captured the highlights and breakthroughs as well as the subtle remarks and unspoken exchanges that took place in each of the five training sessions we hosted at our AWAKEN festival. Her artistic ability combined with her depth and grasp of theoretical concepts allowed her to both record and reinterpret the surrounding dialogue in real time, which she did succinctly and beautifully”

Layan Al Dabt 
En.v Earth

“Blanche did an amazing job, everyone at the event and back at the office are really amazed by what she achieved for us.”

Rebecca Hill

Head of Marketing – Danshell Group

“Blanche came along to an event on the finale weekend of our first ever learning journey to capture the essence of the project. Despite only joining us for one day, Blanche managed to capture the energy of the journey and gave us a fantastic visual representation of our unique experience that is not just a great memoir of the journey but is something we can use to promote our project in the future. Thanks Blanche!”

Leonie Jarret

Drivers for Change

“Blanche is a expert listener and observer.  Her expertise in adding the visual element to a conversation brings the words to life and in doing so brings the meeting to life.  We have worked with Blanche for 5 years and will continue to do so at every opportunity. Her translations of what people are saying into a visual representation are profound and moving and always spark a deeper conversation.”

Jennifer La Trobe

Director – Creative Connection

“Blanche Ellis is one of those rare artists who has a rich, lively, uncontained imagination and at the same time an attention to detail. She can listen and pick up on key points with the alacrity of a poet and present them in surprisingly fresh and relevant ways.

As a graphic recorder she creates more than a simple record. Her work adds layers of unspoken meaning, and emotional depth.

A more intangible gift that Blanche brings is her presence. Without in any way being in your face she can be in your mind. This brings a sense to the group, or even the conference she is working in, a real sense that what is being recorded has value and worth. The points she curates into the mural quickly, quietly, and colourfully, are respected and unobtrusively assert that something significant is happening.

People are as impressed by the art of her working as they are impressed by the work of art she creates.

There are many graphic recorders to choose from these days. Blanche is one of the best. She has trained and worked with Creative Connection in the UK, is very experienced and although you may pay more for her, you can be confident that you will get real value.”

Tim Casswell

Director – Creative Connection

 “Blanche made a wonderful addition to our FRAMED LiveFriday museum late at the Ashmolean. She created beautiful drawings of our visitors in historical style, which helped bring history and art to life amongst our Dutch paintings!”

Dr Sarah Doherty

Creative Producer – Ashmolean Museum

“Blanche and I met in 2014 when she had come to document the journey of Jagriti Yatra in India, a 15 day long train ride across the country. I was representing School For Social Entrepreneurs India. It was amazing to see our travels and discussions woven into a constantly unfolding illustration that fed back into discussions and workshops. Blanche and her work-partner adapted to every situation from temples and university lecture halls, to village floors and jolting train carriages, always with pens in hand, capturing the flow of conversation. Spontaneous moments and comments were recorded alongside official speeches, catching the atmosphere of the talks & trip and creating beautiful memories of the physical journey, but also the journey of ideas. Plus she’s a fantastic singer!”

Mohit Arora

School For Social Entrepreneurs India – Jagriti Yatra 2017

Get in touch:

Email: blancheillustrates@gmail.com
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