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Yvie Juniper-Johnson
@yviejohnson.com
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🌈Illustrator & Storyteller & Poet
♿️ ME & TN // ✨AuDHD // 🪴Intuitive
🦋 Disability, Creativity & Feeling Whole
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Denbigh, Wales // dw i'n dysgu 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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It's #KidLitArtPostcard Day!
Here's a hope-filled sunrise equine piece based on a folktale from the Welsh ancient text, Mabinogion.
Always drawing my own versions of folktale stories!

#KidLit #Illustration #Wales #Art

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Digital Illustration of a mare and foal in a field, backdrop is a sunrise with a tree line and three birds in the sky. Foreground is a floral hedge with the text that reads: "Rhiannon" under the mare, and "Pryderi" under the foal. Under the image reads: Yvie Juniper-Johnson. Yvie Johnson dot Co dot UK. Illustrator and Writer.
November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Screenshot of live cameras on board the Sumud Flotilla. They have received an interception alert, so crew are assembling with lifejackets.

Keep watch on the link below of their livelink via YouTube.

#GlobalSumudFlotilla #Flotilla

https://www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWFtpjU?si=gmOREMcwkiRdId8r
Screenshot of live cameras on board the Sumud Flotilla. They have received an interception alert, so crew are assembling with lifejackets.
October 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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It's #KidLitArtPostcard Day!
Here's a marine-life and mountain view piece for our nature-loving learners. I'm currently live streaming my KidLit wildlife art process on Twitch, I love to bring rich colours to my work with my own stories of their tales.

#KidLit #Illustration #Wales

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Digital illustration by Yvie Johnson is a portrait of the ocean, with a whale swimming underneath the water, light streaming through the water towards the whale, with lots of coral and small marine life at the bottom of the image. Above the ocean water level is a mountain range, three birds flying in the sky just above the skyline. Behind the mountains are clouds stretched across the sky, the sky is colourful and also arched behind the mountains going from light yellow at the sky line to purple at the top of the image where there are faint stars. Text at the bottom reads: "Yvie Juniper-Johnson. Yvie Johnson dot com. Illustrator and Writer."
September 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Greetings #KidLitArtPostcard Day! 🦋
Summer is still with us, the birds singing their sweet songs each day.

There are a lot of 'B' words in this illo, can you find them?

This was created with a sweet animation, an original poem and a vinyl album cover.

Thanks! Diolch!
#KidLit #Illustration #Art
Digital illustration by Yvie Juniper-Johnson. Yvie's August Kid Lit Art postcard. An illustration of a blue tit, sitting on a beech tree branch, wearing a bonnet, a bow tie and braces, playing a banjo. There is a sky background. A smaller branch with leaves in the foreground. The bird is looking up towards the sky. The sunlight is coming through the clouds. Under the image text reads: “Yvie Juniper-Johnson. Yvie Johnson dot Com. Illustrator and Writer.”
August 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Whilst Labour MPs are voting to take away my quality of life, my life takes another spin around the Solar System.
Smile not guaranteed.
Deep, beautiful love for my disabled comrades and allies, and yes, even my adversaries 💕
#BirthdayWishes
#DisabilityInclusion
#TakingThePIP
July 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Greetings #KidLitArtPostcard Day! 🤗

A young Peredur making his way to a castle & getting swept up in the beauty of flowers and a butterfly, a story from the Mabinogion!
My joy is folktales, mythology, adventures in nature and the mysteries of the inner world.

Thanks! Diolch!
#KidLit #Illustration
Digital illustration by Yvie Juniper-Johnson. 
Yvie's June Kid Lit Art postcard. An image showing a young teenage boy sat on a rock in a field of flowers. He is wearing an iron pot on his head. He has red hair coming out from under the iron pot. His clothing is medieval with short sleeve armour. He has long boots that come up to armoured knee coverings. He wears a collared tunic with a rope tied around his waist. He holds a bunch of flowers in his left hand, and his right hand is reaching out to a butterfly that is glowing inside a bright orb of light and sparkles. His eyes are bright and his mouth is agape. Behind him is a vast landscape with mountains, trees and a fairytale castle on a rocky outcrop. To his left is a large old tree with two wooden signs nailed to it. The top sign reads: “CASTELL” which is Welsh and translates to “Castle”. The wooden sign below that has an arrow pointing towards the large castle in the distance. The sun is setting on the horizon so the sky is lit up with oranges and pinks.
Under the image text reads: “Yvie Juniper-Johnson. Yvie Johnson dot Com. Illustrator and Writer.”
June 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Soooo, I wrote some words about the significance of 12th May reaching across time and space, weaving through my ancestry, uniting millions around the world.
it has words and pictures 😊

Proofread by the middle child. All spelling mistakes my own.
#Disability #MEcfs
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Square image of a night landscape background showing Yvie in the bottom right, in her wheelchair looking away from the camera to a light on the horizon on the far left, with white text at the top that reads: "Counting down the days. Not hoping for a miracle." And white text at the bottom that reads: "Florence Nightingale, a woman whose legacy is synonymous with care, shares a birthday with my grandad."
May 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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A project encouraging me to love myself, my little life and what I offer the world.
I can't change how people perceive or hear me, but even with my little voice it's important that AI isn't here to replace me, my views or my experiences.
#StarterPackNoAI #DisabledArtist #illustration #AdobeFresco
Digital illustration of a stylised doll starter pack design. Text at top reads “Yvie’s Starter Pack. The Bed-Living Edition. Human Made.” Top left is a red circle and a red line across the text “A. I.” The top section background is pink. The main section background is a blue gradient with scattered stars across it of which the upper left corner reads “Now includes multiple chronic illnesses”. The main doll compartment on the left is an illustration of Yvie, a white female with purple hair to the shoulders, wearing a green floral dress with ruched sleeves and pockets, it comes to just above the knee. Yvie has a big smile and is showing her big front tooth gap. She is wearing a yellow earring in left ear and a red pendant necklace. Her head is resting against a white pillow, and she is lying on a clear blanket. Both arms go straight down. The left hand’s fingers are crossed. Her legs are straight and she is without shoes. There are 6 small compartments on the right of the doll showing Yvie’s favourite items. The 1st on left is an iPad with Apple Pencil showing the Adobe Fresco logo on the screen. Next is a collection of crystals and mushrooms. The 3rd is an open book with red cover of Astrology symbols and text reads “Valens”, “Rise” and “Jung”. The 4th is a walking stick. The 5th is a grey tuxedo cat saying “Miaowo”. The 6th is a green plant in a purple pot. At the bottom is a bar code with the text that reads “ @ Yvie Johnson”. Vertical text on the right reads “Batteries not included”. The background of the starter pack is a coral floral pattern.
April 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Greetings for #KidLitArtPostcard day and #WorldBookDay! This is a scene from an unpublished book idea by @lozzakidwriting.bsky.social 🌈

I'm Yvie Juniper-Johnson, a disabled illustrator of colourful whimsy!

#KidLitArt #KidLitPostcard #Disability #Representation #Illustration #Artist #Art #Fresco
Digital illustration by Yvie Juniper-Johnson. Yvie's March Kid Lit Art postcard, showing two children in a street scene walking joyfully. On the left is a girl with long plaited red hair and white skin holding a paintbrush in her right hand. Her left hand is a small hand. She is wearing a yellow pinafore dress with two front pockets over a striped pair of tights and a pink long-sleeved top, with blue shoes. In the left pinafore pocket is a white bunny holding a small paintbrush. On her left is a boy with brown hair and brown skin smiling with a big grin. He is also holding a paintbrush in one hand and a tube of paint in the other. He is wearing an orange raincoat, blue jeans and yellow wellington boots. They are both in a street scene walking in the road as they are painting the town. Below them is another scene of the town from above with views of the rooftops and hills beyond, there are some trees with a blue bird sitting on a branch on the left looking both out across the town and at the two children painting the scene with their brushes. Under the image reads: Yvie Juniper-Johnson. Yvie Johnson dot Co dot UK. Illustrator and Writer.
March 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Dydd Gwŷl Dewi Hapus!
🌼
Happy St David's Day!
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Can't find either a leek or a daffodil in the emojis 😂 so here's an illustration I created for this very day (every year).

#Art #Illustration #AdobeFresco
#Cymru #Wales #SlavaUkraini
Square illustration by Yvie Juniper-Johnson showing a light postage stamp outline around a roughened blue background with four daffodils across the lower half of the image. Faint gridlines can be seen overlapping the blue background. In the top half of the image the words are italicised and in an overlapping format. Text reads: Dydd Gwŷl Dewi Hapus. The translation in English reads: Happy Saint David's Day.
March 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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profoundly in love, then I've done what I can.

My body has been through the mill (& my mind let's face it) and I'm still trying to make the tech work for me from my bed, but this culmination really feels like a gift.

Sending love to you 💕
5/5

#Art #Illustration #Writer #Artist #Peace #AdobeFresco
A digital illustration by Yvie Juniper-Johnson, an image with a blue border. The image is a female with long wavy hair tied back in a bun, wearing large round glasses, a roll-neck long-sleeve top under dungarees, wearing wellies. In the front pouch of her dungarees are a selection of pens, pencils and paintbrushes. Two pin badges on her dungaree straps, one is the Libra icon and one is of the letter Y. She is sat on the grass leaning against a log, knees up and resting a book on her knees. A tear is rolling down her right cheek. A mug of hot drink is steaming next to her, the mug is sat on a pile of books. Variety of plants around her. Background is dark, with hanging lightbulbs and stars above her. The words “Peace beings in me” is floating above the book.
February 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Zoom in on WIP for my 2024 Folktale Week collection. Sketching & painting & colouring-in using #AdobeFresco.
Now sharing this wee illo via the @flashes.blue app (did that work?) & love that we’ve a mini selection of filters like ol’ Insta days before it all got so complicated. #KidLitArt #Folktale
Square sketched image of a digital illustration showing a young white girl sitting on a rock by a marshy pond. Girl has blonde hair in pigtails. She is holding a handful of rocks in left hand against tummy, right hand has released a stone into the pond. She’s wearing dungaree dress with collared shirt and short-sleeved top, long grey socks and dark boots. Looks scruffy and bored. Partially coloured in scenery shows tufts of grass, rocks, mushrooms and a swampy pond.
February 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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My first day entering the Kid Lit Postcard day so the wobbles and imposter syndrome are real.

Drawing emotive, colourful, whimsical people and animals is my jam!

#KidLitPostcard #KidLitArt #KidLitArtPostcard #Disability #Representation #Illustration #Artist
Digital illustration by Yvie Juniper-Johnson. Yvie's February Kid Lit Art postcard, showing a girl with long flowing purple hair covered in blue butterflies. She has tan skin and wearing dark dungarees with a front pouch over an ochre yellow short-sleeved tee shirt. On the front pouch is the Disability Pride flag colours. She is wearing headphones over her ears and a wire attached to the headphones is connected to a device in her front pouch. Her right hand is reaching out and the hand of a darker skinned person is reaching out from off screen to connect with her. Under the image reads: Yvie Juniper-Johnson. Yvie Johnson dot Co dot UK. Illustrator and Writer.
February 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I'm so grateful for my mum 💕

I love that there's an asteroid with my mum's name on my IC with my natal ♊️ 16º Venus and 17º Moon nearby.

I love that I'm becoming more like mum as I age.
I'm sad that she still bears the effort of parenting a sick child.
(I was my mum's late birthday present)
🌙✨💜
6/6
Square photograph with a white border, by Yvie Juniper-Johnson. Two white females sat up leaning on green flowery pillows against a headboard. Behind them is a wall with a map covering it. Female on the left is Yvie, wearing a purple cardigan, a neck-warmer and a pink tee shirt. She is smiling towards the camera with closed mouth. Her shoulder-length pink-dyed hair is in plaits. On the right is Yvie's Mum, wearing a dark pink tartan shawl and speckled jumper. Her white hair is tied back. She is smiling at the camera with a closed mouth.
February 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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So let’s get to know each other over on this corner of the internet, quote with a selfie and the lord of your ascendant!

8H Saturn in Virgo (Mars conjunct) and/or 10H Uranus in Scorpio ✨
Portrait photograph by Yvie Juniper-Johnson showing Yvie, a white woman with shoulder-length pink hair pulled into a half ponytail, sat up in bed against a flowery cushion. She is wearing a striped long-sleeve top under a a dungaree dress. Yvie is looking up towards the camera with a closed mouth smile. Behind her head is a world map. She is wearing two of stringed necklaces.
January 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Got that headachy insomnia blend still.

Am also covered in kitten cuts, aka love bites, from my new little feline love 💕
and I was not thinking about Mars retrograding in my 6H Cancer at all!

Will be able to shave my legs again once the scabs have healed 🤢
Photograph taken by Yvie Juniper-Johnson of a tuxedo kitten walking along a Welsh Tartan bed cover. The sunlight is shining through the large window in the background. A bed table is on the right. A plant pot and some pictures can be seen to the left of the window.
January 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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We have der Schnee!
❄️
(image is an accurate representation somewhere)

May your snow be white and fluffy,
your bellies warm and stuffy,
your hearts alert and tingly,
to the love beams bright and twinkly.

#Poetry #Poem #WinterArt #Cymru #Illustration

© 2024 @yviejohnson.bsky.social
Landscape digital illustration of a snowy scene showing two people wearing coats, hats and boots walking in the snow towards the town in the distance. The person on the left is holding a dog lead which is attached to a dog doing a pee against a signpost. There is a tree to the right of the people. The two people are hugging as they walk. Foliage with red berries is on either side of the foreground. Footprints are in the snow leading up to the two people and the dog. In the distance are snowy hills with some trees. The sky is shaped with moving clouds and colours. Stars are high in the sky.
January 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Interesting focus! I tend to lose track a lot in creating so choosing just 1 to share highlights how much I love what I'm doing even if they're never printed.
I decided to share this one because when I get lost in detail (I have a Mercury co-ruled chart) I know I'm delving deeper into my psyche!
A digital illustration, by Yvie Juniper-Johnson, with a green border. The image is of a green Wood Dragon floating in a figure of 8 through a dark forest. It has its eyes and mouth open and a light smile. It has flowing orange hair, moustache and beard filled with leaves and flowers. There are flowers, mushrooms and foliage in the foreground, and reads "2024" with stars around it. The background is a forest of birch trees with two lanterns lighting up the dragon. There are lots of glowing flower stars across the image.
January 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Yesterday was a wonderful day!

(tho not free of sleep deprivation or stomach ache or nerve pain)

'cos we had a family day, putting up the real tree & decorating it together & watching the latest episode of Outlander & the fire was on, etc.
I am so glad for yesterday!

PEM = Life hangover today 🥺
Photograph by Yvie of a Norwegian Pine Christmas Tree decorated with wooden and paper hangings as well as tree lights and baubles. It sits in the corner of a room. A fireplace on the right has a bright Himalayan salt lamp on the mantelpiece. Behind the tree is a green bookshelf with books. Left of the tree, the edge of a cupboard and the wheel of a bike can be seen. A blue patterned rug on the mahogany wooden floor is in front of the tree.
December 8, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Tonight I was sketching about the Mid-Winter custom of #MariLwyd for #FolktaleWeek2024 in Fresco!
My last livestream on Bēhance is next week before moving on to the Twitch.
I've even started adding videos to the YouTube.
Feels like I'm doing something useful with my bed-living life.
#DisabilityLove
Screenshot of Yvie's iPad using the Adobe Fresco app. Tools are on the left side, page layers are on the right side. Opened up on the left are the colour palettes and colour wheel. The rough sketch illustration on the main page is a zoomed-in view of the Mari Lwyd illustration on a street of colourful terraced houses. The Mari Lwyd is a horse's skull on a stick with ribbons and flowers, which is being held by a person under a white sheet. The Mari Lwyd is outside a house where the front door is open and musical notes and lights are streaming from it.
December 4, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Thank you 🙏
Your answer for another question re finances, my 2H and 11H ruler is in my 8H. I’m trying to earn money as a disabled creative and I cannot figure out if I’m fated to ever be creatively successful (as in financially independent)?
Astrological natal chart for Yvie using whole sign house system.
December 3, 2024 at 2:45 AM
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Getting ready for one of my last livestreams on Bēhance at 7pm UK Wed.
The community's ability to livestream ends on 16th Dec so I've precisely 3 Wednesdays + the last day left on this lovely space.
Thanks to these streams I joined a wonderful art community and have regained a lot of confidence.
Digital illustration by Yvie Juniper-Johnson. The background is an arched sky view of clouds, three flying birds and the tips of some mountains. The colours range from darker at the top to brighter at the bottom. In the centre is the text. At the centre top is Yvie's profile image in a circle. Below that reads: "Creating illustrations in Adobe Fresco. Wednesdays 7pm UTC. Behance. Yvie Johnson". Below the text is Yvie's hummingbird icon.
November 27, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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On that note, I've added a Shop section to my Linktree to help folks find my art for sale!
I am working on my branding.
Working on pieces to add.
Working on developing my Patreon page for subscribers. It all feels relentless when trying to heal a broken body, yet I feel called to share.
🙏
9/9
A screenshot of Yvie's Linktree main page. Background is an illustration of dandelions, with some of the word "dandelion" above the illustration. Yvie's profile image is at the the top. Below that the text reads "Yvie Johnson. Illustrator & Storyteller. AuDHD. Soul Expression & Joy Creation." The social icons are below the text. The heading text of "Links" and "Shop", with "Links" being selected, are above different sections of the page, including "Tutorials with Yvie" and "Publications". A screenshot of Yvie's Linktree main page. Background is an illustration of dandelions, with some of the word "dandelion" above the illustration. Yvie's profile image is at the the top. Below that the text reads "Yvie Johnson. Illustrator & Storyteller. AuDHD. Soul Expression & Joy Creation." The social icons are below the text. The heading text of "Links" and "Shop" with Shop being selected. Below are two rows of collections, the first row called "ART PRINTS" which shows three different art print illustrations. The second row shows "MUGS" and also three different mug designs.
November 22, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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Day 2 of #FolktaleWeek is Gate!
I found a sweet little tale in "Ghosts" by @folklorewales.com & @folklorepod.bsky.social of the old man who waited at the gate to light a path safely at night.
✨
Another WIP piece but sharing it cos darn that perfectionism!
@folktaleweek.bsky.social #FolktaleWeekGate
Digital illustration by Yvie Juniper-Johnson. An image showing the luminescent ghost of an old man wearing a flat cap, he is at the centre left of image, holding up a lantern which shines on the stone path and the the surrounding fence and hedge. He is opening a gate at the entrance to the stone path which leads to a peaked roof house in the background. The house has a weather vane at the top with a Welsh Dragon or Ddraig Goch. A few lights shine from the windows. The sky is darkening and the light is fading. There is a full moon above the hills in the distance. Darkened trees and branches frame the image. Text on the image reads “The Ghost of the Old Man of Bryn Goleu from The Folklore of Wales”. A label on the wooden fence by the gate reads “Gate”.
November 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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Day one of #FolktaleWeek and the prompt is Mist! I chose the local ghost tale of the Headless Horseman on Bodfari Road.

Haven't pulled out all the stops this year but am glad to have done some of them, and joyfully!

#FolktaleWeekMist #FolktaleWeek2024 #WelshFolktales
@folktaleweek.bsky.social
🌙✨🚗
Digital illustration by Yvie Juniper-Johnson. An image showing a headless horseman riding a horse, both appear transparent like a ghost and are at the centre of the image as if lit up by a light. Tall dark pine trees reach to the sky either side of the horse and rider. A crescent moon in the sky and wispy clouds. At the bottom of the image is a small red car shining its full headlights as it drives through mist on a country road. Text reads “Headless Horseman of Bodfari”. A small label at the bottom reads “Mist”.
November 19, 2024 at 11:34 PM