What Studio Woody Offers
In short, the whole package -
- Branding design- Marketing & Communications - Strategy- Product development- Creative facilitation - Curation & event production- Art direction - Illustration- Copywriting... SEE MORE 
26.03.2025
21.01.2025
Spotlight on: The Drawing Circus On Screen
In collaboration with Draw Brighton and The Drawing Circus, Woody was the creative director of The Drawing Circus On Screen for Falmouth University's MA Illustration Online course in 2018. Solving the conundrum of bringing life drawing classes to distance learners.
Ahead of its time, the project's series of beautifully art directed films perfectly translated the life drawing studio to remote participants, whilst maintaining the key aspects of observational sketching.
Find... SEE MORE
03.06.2024
What Studio Woody Does
From collaborating with the arts and heritage sector through to the world of scientific research, the studio brings services that engage audiences and shares ground-breaking knowledge.
From project branding, production and event coordination, right through to workshop resources and evaluation reports, Woody studio delivers the whole package:
- Visual identity - Copywriting- Promotional strategy- Creative activities for children, young people and adults- Digital communications... SEE MORE
23.04.2024
Brighton in May
Brighton was home to The Woody Studio for over a decade and although we are now based further in land, within the South Downs, the seaside mix of art and fun that is the Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe is always alluring in May.
For those of you that have never visited the UK city of Brighton, in the county of Sussex, the month of May promises art, music, dance and drama.
Also worth checking out other surrounding exhibitions and festivals including... SEE MORE
31.07.2023
NEW podcast - Rave About Illustration with Zara Wood
Zara Wood aka Woody shines a light on the world of illustration in a new podcast series Rave About Illustration:
https://shows.acast.com/rave-about-illustration-with-zara-wood
In the first pilot series, we get an overview of what illustration is and what it's like being an illustrator. We also hear from recent graduate Akemi Kawano, on what it's like working in the creative industries, along with world-renowned graphic artist Malika Favre on making a sustainable career.
Concept,... SEE MORE
16.09.2022
Projects to check out
There's been a reshuffle and more projects adding just over here
Work spanning across education, events and creative direction - enjoy. ... SEE MORE
03.11.2021
Spotlight on: Colour & Forage
Woody was commissioned to bring her Colour In Club to Brighton a few moons ago.
Colour & Forage was a drawn hedgerow that appeared to be growing before your very eyes.
After colouring-in the artwork, people could also pick natural elements like apples and berries.
Check out the full project here... SEE MORE
24.06.2021
Spotlight on: Colour in Space from 2015
Let's go back in time, and space, to Brighton in 2015, where people came together and coloured in a 6 metre long graphic by Woody.
Woody’s Colour In Club brought its cosmos of uncluttered graphics and coloured pencils to Jubilee Library in the heart of Brighton.
Humans of all ages sat down together and collaborated on a super-sized artwork to celebrate World Mental Health Day and the launch of City Reads 2015.
Read and see more about Colour Space here... SEE MORE
03.01.2021
H A P P Y N E W Y E A R - W E L C O M E 2 0 2 1
Happy 2021 folks!
Our studio shop will reopen soon once we have done our annual stock check. Look out on Twitter for the latest updates.
We'll also be updating our studio project page with all the art direction and e-learning design commissions that Woody has been heading up.
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11.11.2020
10 year anniversary of Mirror Mime
It is the ten year anniversary of Woody's exhibition Mirror Mime at YSP - Art Fund's museum of the year in 2014.
Her drawn illustrations were translated in to a temporary public art installation measuring 5 metres by 25 metres with a subject matter spanning over 200 years old.
Infused with Renaissance imagery and 1920s style, Mirror Mime depicted a beguiling world where historical fact became a reimagined present.
Cherie Federico for Aesthetica magazine wrote... SEE MORE
The Studio
art direction + creative facilitation + illustration
Get in touch about a new project: zara@zarawood.com
Woody's Studio collaborates on a diverse mix of creative projects, from super graphics that adorn hospital walls to creative faciliation for research projects. The studio also curates and delivers events.
Run by Woody, also known as Zara Wood creates, coordinates and educates.
A co-founder of The Enquiry Desk project and Brighton's PechaKucha producer for several years, they are an award-winning senior lecturer + part of the International Association of Illustration Academics forum.
One-off artworks to buy online
Launching in 2026
Original artwork by Woody, including the coveted Little Treasures collection
- original miniatures framed in vintage jewellery.
Sociable Woody
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Interviewing & hosting - Podcasts + Talks:
Rave About Illustration Podcast
Time for some illumination on illustration. Illustration is everywhere and yet you may not be familiar with what an illustrator does. Rave About Illustration sheds light on the creative world of visual translation.