{"id":407,"date":"2021-01-25T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:53:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:53:04","slug":"derwent-artist-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/01\/derwent-artist-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Derwent Artist Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ok so&#8230; let&#8217;s take this &#8216;work from her home studio&#8217;, &#8216;humble pencil artist&#8217; just doing her thing and have the UK&#8217;s largest pencil company contact her asking to be an artist ambassador&#8230; whut?! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Derwent is the pencil brand I&#8217;ve used my entire life. Yes. There have been others but I&#8217;m not one to kiss and tell. But Derwent has always remained at my core and were the pencils I used over and over again growing up. I learnt to draw using Derwent pencils, much to my mums dismay as she would constantly buy them and loose them to me!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derwent-Ambassador_1200px-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derwent-Ambassador_1200px-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derwent-Ambassador_1200px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derwent-Ambassador_1200px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derwent-Ambassador_1200px-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derwent-Ambassador_1200px-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derwent-Ambassador_1200px-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derwent-Ambassador_1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now at the mere age of 27 and only 5.5 years into my professional career, I can proudly say that I represent a UK brand that has inspired artists globally. Their factory and beginnings are based in the English Lake District, a place a call home from home and hope to one day live. Not in the factory just to add&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to see how this relationship develops and hopefully it&#8217;ll help to inspire other young artists just starting out on their journey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok so&#8230; let&#8217;s take this &#8216;work from her home studio&#8217;, &#8216;humble pencil artist&#8217; just doing her thing and have the UK&#8217;s largest pencil company contact her asking to be an artist ambassador&#8230; whut?! Derwent is the pencil brand I&#8217;ve used my entire life. Yes. There have been others but I&#8217;m not one to kiss and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}