I welcome Autumn with open arms but the studio feels like a blustery whirl-wind with paint brushes and cleaner, computers, pens, postmen, to-do lists and packing tape flying around.

Next month I’m looking forward to going to Southern Italy for a couple of weeks to eat and draw the food there. So, I thought, for this month’s newsletter I would take a look back through some of my favourite kitchens I’ve drawn in so far..

The ever charming Jeremy Lee sheeting broad beans for a Salad Niçoise he made me at Quo Vadis.

Napoli sausages and winter slaw on the menu board at The Eagle.

Slutty Cheff whipping me up a fish pie at home. I enjoyed watching her use a fork and sieve to mash perfectly smooth potato then an IKEA ziplock to expertly pipe it on the top of the pie.

Mafruha Ahmed whizzing around her little kitchen at Young Space, blackening aubergines and stirring steaming pots of stew - before serving up delicious bowls of lunch to everyone who came to sit communally and eat and talk on long tables.

The quietest kitchen I’ve ever drawn in was that at Lahore Kebab House in Whitechapel. As they worked silently all you could hear was the bubbling of the huge vats of curry, the sizzle of kebabs and the quiet russel of a towering pile of popadoms

Turbots on the grill at Brat

Pea Senbei being made in the midst of Kyoto market

Sushimi being prepared in Kurushiki

The butcher shop and larder at Hill & Szrok, Broadway Market

Not quite a kitchen, but humour me. This was the tea trolley Guy’s A&E.

Will cooking butterflied Bream with lemon leaves on the fire to eat with wild asparagus and fennel.

Camberwell Arms, which is opposite my studio and so holds a very dear place in my heart

Grace cracking open a crab at The Cow, Westbourne Grove