Sam Toft

Sam's earliest ambition was to work in a post office. Instead she has been a fire extinguisher salesman, a silver service waitress, a death grants advisor, a Wedgwood Rooms worker, a catering manager, a civil servant, a student, an au pair.... Having moved around considerably, she now lives and works in Brighton.

She graduated from Kingston Polytechnic with a BA in Applied Social Science (having transferred from a business sandwich degree with French) but then moved up to Liverpool and did a BTEC in General Art and Design at City of Liverpool Community College.

Stripes, textures, children's rhymes, eccentric characters, lovely hats, nostalgic tunes and beautiful dogs are all things that fuel Sam’s imagination.

Sam has been working as an artist these past 12 years using mixed media: Oil pastels, coloured inks, scraffito and the innovative fingers-and-thumbs technique. She met Mr Mustard a while back, dawdling along the seafront and he is so glad to have her drawing him in pictures, colouring them in so well and hardly ever going over the lines.