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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

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