Foundation is finally over. It has been confidence building, exciting, productive and interesting - but also the most stressful, exhausting, testing few months I've ever experienced. For that I am so grateful. Out of everything I learnt this year the most important thing I came away with is that you get out what you put in. I surprised myself by coming away awarded with a Merit but I was utterly amazed that people actually wanted to buy my work - over the course of two weeks while the exhibition was up I made £164 just by selling my art. I now feel ready to take on my BA armed with all of the knowledge I have gained this year. 

A recent advertising brief we were given required us to create a new and different "Stop Smoking" campaign including posters, leaflets and other informative yet creative publications. Being the only person on Foundation to actually have applied for an Advertising BA course I felt under more pressure to get these pieces into my portfolio to take to interview.

I wanted to avoid the popular gory photographic take that uses cancerous organs and blocked arteries to persuade. I also wanted to avoid the other popular tactic of playing on second hand smoke and children as weapons.