At Blackbird Illustration, Stephanie Strickland creates lively hand-drawn illustrations to bring the past to life for museums and heritage sites.

Family-friendly illustrations of historical characters, buildings, animals and objects

A line of illustrated family activity trails and picture maps including, Battlefield 1066 trail for English Heritage, The Dewsbury Beeline Heritage Trail for Dewsbury Townscape Heritage Initiative, I Spy Animal Treasures for Temple Newsam, Pendennis Castle Through The Ages picture map for English Heritage and Little Spotter's Fashion Hunt for York Castle Museum

Fun and informative illustrations for family activity trails and educational resources

A line of images of illustrated interpretation and display examples including, Civil Wars Soldier Training interpretation panel for Pontefract Castle, Pit Pony and Measuring Stick life-size interactive for National Mining Museum Scotland, Dress the Knight magnetic puzzle game for Historic Royal Palaces, Cornish Giant British Sign Language interactive roundel for Royal Cornwall Museum and cut-out Racing Yachtsman character for Ullapool Museum

Striking and colourful artworks for museum interpretation and display

A line of gift shop merchandise including, Historic building fridge magnet for St Albans Museum and Gallery , Ilbert the Dragon fridge magnet for Pontefract Castle, Notebook, pencil and erasure for St Albans Museum and Gallery

Appealing character illustrations for licensing and gift-shop merchandise

A line of colouring activity sheets including, Lady Guildford Sailing Galley colouring sheet for the Scottish Maritime Museum, Florence Nightingale colouring stand-up statue for St Paul's Cathedral, Roman Soldier colouring sheet for Castleford Museum, Penny Farthing colouring sheet for Kingston Museum and a Toucan colouring and writing sheet for Wakefield Museum

Black-and-white line drawings for meaningful souvenir colouring activity sheets