graphic facilitation and fine art

Making ideas visible, one line at a time.

I work with researchers, charities and the people whose stories sit at the heart of their work, turning lived experience and complex ideas into illustrations people remember and share. In my own paintings, I return to the same territory: anatomy, grief and the systems that shape our care.

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Yael’s hands drawing the Charting the Journey infographic on a tablet with a stylus

Graphic facilitation

All projects
Infographic “Charting the Journey: what parents wish they’d known about DDH”, drawn as a winding road through diagnosis, life with the brace and life now.

Charting the Journey

Steps Charity

Infographic “What now? Practical pointers from parents on what to expect after a DDH diagnosis”, covering top tips and tricks, support available, special moments, the screening process and the impact on parents.

What now?

Steps Charity

Illustration titled “A message from our PPI contributors”, asking why an interim diagnosis matters, what the implications of the research are, and what people should keep in mind at the stakeholder meeting.

A message from our PPI contributors

MODE study, NIHR

The printed illustration “A message from our PPI contributors” held up at the stakeholder meeting, with the Queen Mary, Exeter, Oxford and NIHR title slide on the screen behind

from the page to the room

In use at the stakeholder meeting

A message from our PPI contributors kept the MODE study’s stakeholder event rooted in lived experience, as clinicians, patients, charities and policymakers worked out where future interventions should focus.

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Fine art

All paintings
Painting of two friends in a car at night. On the left, the artist sits with eyes closed, close to tears; on the right, her best friend drives, eyes on the road and a hand on the wheel.

I’ll drive

2026

Self-portrait of the artist with long curly brown hair, one eye squeezed shut, in front of a Snellen eye chart whose letters spell out ‘work to study to study to work’, against a turbulent background of coloured scribbles.

20/25 Vision

2025

Painting of a teenage girl with a long ponytail, reading a book, holding her newborn brother in a blue knitted hat on her arm, connected to oxygen, against a dark green background.

Coexistence

2023 · People’s Choice Award

Worked with

NIHR School for Primary Care Research · University of Oxford · University of Exeter · Queen Mary University of London · Steps Charity