Featuring 8 graphite drawings and speculative fiction to go with each. My themes are womanhood, transformation, Filipino myth, and how we are changed by what we cultivate. Available at Good Press Glasgow, Quimby's Chicago, and Quimby's Brooklyn. #zineart #filipinofolklore #botanicalhorror #feministzine #speculativefiction
Introducing Wanda, a Cambridge-based Filipino-British artist and writer who was longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize in 2023.
Her practice explores womanhood, transformation, and cultural identity through botanical imagery, magical realism, and Philippine folklore, with drawing and storytelling feeding into each other as parallel ways of thinking through the same themes.
Wanda is presenting her debut zine, Overgrown Ink, which combines graphite portraiture and short fiction exploring women altered by what they cultivate — love, shame, beauty, belief — and what grows back. The first edition consists of 100 signed and numbered copies. This has been accepted for consignment at Good Press Glasgow, Quimby’s Chicago, and Quimby’s Brooklyn 🙌
@overgrown_inker
Hive Zine Fair
Saturday 25th April 2026, 11am-4pm
Patch
5-6 Gray’s Yard
Chelmsford, CM2 6QR
Find my zine at the share table of the Hive Zine Fair by @hiveartistsstudios ! It's free entry, and they'll have a pop-up cafe on site. I will be popping by around lunchtime to stock up on zines myself, so hope to see you there!
New WIP on smooth Bristol. This is a new surface/support for me, and I'm still getting used to how absolutely smooth it is. Everything just slides on it.
Sometimes progress means a step back. After working on the tiger quite a bit, and still not being happy with it, I've just decided to erase the whole thing and start again. So for now, it's just her, and all the work that was there before is gone. I think one of the hard lessons we need to learn is to not be afraid to cut out the things that aren't working for us, start fresh, and just try again. It may look like we have nothing to show for it now, but actually, the lessons are there and hopefully, we have a better sense of what we need to do to get the vision on the page.
I had to go to London for work today (our team lead was in town from New York), and trains coming back home were so delayed. It took me almost 3 hours to get home. Needless to say, I didn't get much done.
Also, I should have started this on Bristol paper, probably. I think it would have looked nicer with whiter, smoother paper.
Today's progress. I usually don't like slow pieces, and want to get the images out very quickly. But I am really enjoying taking my time with this one.
