Birds in Hats

Alice Tams is a travelling illustrator, largely, of birds wearing hats.

She has been drawing since she was dexterous enough to pick up a pencil crayon and is obsessed by colour, fine detail and the natural world. After graduating from Goldsmiths University in 2011 with a creative writing degree she decided to make a career out of animals wearing human clothing. Namely, different birds wearing different hats.

After a couple of years of turning up at Brick Lane market in East London every Sunday with her wares, she became a full time illustrator - running her small business and taking on commissions from her studio in Bermondsey.

This year, after 8 years in London, she decided to pack up her studio and take it on the road. So far she's travelled to Singapore, Malaysia, driven the length and breadth of New Zealand and travelled up and down Taiwan, settling in Taipei for now, where she continues to find new, more exciting ways to put birds in hats.

All products - unless otherwise specified - are dispatched from the UK and are posted the following working day.