Welcome. Croeso

Bringing bright and cheerful with a conscientious tone together, through a whimsical style.

Crop of a digital illustration of a faded blue sky with a rainbow across the upper middle, with daisy flowers showering down. A white middle-aged female with long wavy red hair, wearing long earrings and round glasses, is smiling with eyes closed. A charming caricature.

Square digital illustration of Yvie, a white female with blonde hair tied back in a bun.She is wearing a floral bandana and a mustard collared-shirt, and is looking left towards the sunset. Behind her is abstract fields, countryside and clouds.

Hello

Hey there, bore da, I’m Yvie Juniper-Johnson from Denbigh in North Wales.

Creating digital illustrations for print and web, writing poetry and short stories, and working on my first graphic-sort-of memoir.

Please contact me for commissions.

Occasionally illustrations are available via Print-on-Demand because it’s better for the environment. We can all help in our own little way! Currently working on Disability Artivism as well as Women in Art projects. Spreading my light through melancholic joy.

Published Commissions

Read about this set of illustrations on Medium

Folktale Week and Winter Sessions

Folktale Week 2024

Using stories and characters from the ancient Mabinogion allows for many portrait and landscape concept creations — Read more

Live Portrait Drawing

Livestreaming a portrait session with DTM for the Behance Last Bash in December 2024. Watch the livestream session — YouTube Link

Welsh Winter

Creating illustrations inspired by the hills around my home, and perhaps some of my pet’s character too. See more — Instagram Post

Cats, Colourful Carrots and Creative Challenges

Cats and Teacups

Drawing anthropomorphised cats (and other animals) is a favourite part of my style, especially when I get to add some sparkles— Read more

Foodies

Colourful food doesn’t have to be bad for you, especially when it means drawing nature at its finest for editorial and aesthetic joy — Read more

Digital illustration showing portrait of a young female with long brown curly hair flowing back behind her and under a pointed purple witchy hat. She wears yellow star earrings, pink glasses, and a blue hooded top. She is smiling and has dimples. A black and white cat sits on her left shoulder peering at the green book that she is holding open with both hands. The front cover of the book has text that reads: “The Magical Teen”. The spine of the book shows this same text as well as text that reads: “Juniper Johnson”. There is a purple and gold bookmark dangling from the open book over the back cover. She is looking out towards the viewer and there are golden sparkles and light rays emanating from the centre of the book, lighting up the bottom of her face and neck. There are pink ribbons wrapped around the purple hat, some tied in a bow. In the side of her hat is a piece of paper that has text reading: “1 Golden Ticket”. Behind her are abstract shaped light halos in yellow, green and teal. Above her are dangling star, moon and round light bulbs that shine. Around her are a number of shining stars. The dark border is like the cover of a book, with a shape at the bottom of the image as if she is resting on an open book. The letter E is in the central part of the abstract book shape.

Magical Portraits

Another whimsical, magical and colourful portrait challenge. This one is a commission and a beautiful highlight of personal charms — Read more

What people are saying

“Thank you so much for all the introspection, sensitivity and magic you brought to the piece with your incredible illustrations. I couldn’t have imagined it better. Thanks so much also for sharing about your own experiences. As someone who’s mostly housebound myself, it’s so affirming to work with disabled creators who know what the experience is like (despite however difficult) which I think helped make the art so perfect for this piece.”

Anna
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