Paintings & Drawings
by Penelope Ling
Penelope Ling
E-mail: pennyling65(AT)gmail.com - replace (AT) with the @ sign
Phone: 07508 658934
Professional info
Languages
HTML/CSS
​With a degree in Architecture from Oxford Brookes University, I have been a designer, illustrator, painter, graphic designer and lately a hypnotherapist for over 25 years.
Work experience
Skills
Production Editor - Hypnotherapy Today
2010 - 2015
Designer and production editor for the Association for Solution-focused hypnotherapy, the governing body for professional solution-focused hypnotherapists. Commissioning articles and treating graphics and layout for publication.
PHOTOSHOP
FLASH
ILLUSTRATOR
INDESIGN
Pen and ink
Oil painting
Egg Tempera
2010 - present
Art Editor - IDJ Magazine
2008 - 2009
Working with a small editorial team in a garret attic in Bristol, International DJ magazine was a leading publication, but like many independant publishers they were victim to the recession. Since then I have been freelance & hypnotherapist.
2010 - present
Graphic Designer - Clevedon Mercury
​2004 - 2008
​I love newspapers, and have done since I was a child, but unfortunately this great local newspaper in Clevedon Somerset became another victim of the recession and Northcliffe shut it down. At the newspaper I won an industry award for a property marketing campaign for Humberts.
Freelance Graphic Designer
1999 - ongoing
Working freelance allowed me to do a wide range of work, from building websites, e-commerce, through to point of sale material and printed media.
E-commerce Manager - European Electronique
1995 - 1999
Designed, built and managed the IT company's website. Developed advertising, marketing and catalogue material and managed a team of 3.
Graphics Journalist - The Oxford Times
1990-1995
Produced all the illustrations and graphics for the range of daily and weekly newspapers in Oxfordshire, including helping out the emergency services and mock front pages for Inspector Morse.
Finished Artist & Graphic designer - Hurst Publishing
1987-1990
Producing illustrations and finished art (Pre computer age) for many magazines including Auto Trader Magazine.
Oxford Brookes University
1984 - 1987
Trained as an Architect but due to the 1987 recession and the collapse of the construction industry, I took my graphics skills to become a graphic designer and illustrator