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Double Shift: Health Sciences Lecturer by Day, Illustration Studio Owner by Night

Double Shift is a conversation series with artists who balance their creative practice alongside other types of work. For the third edition of Double Shift, I had the pleasure of speaking with Amberlee Green, an illustrator, academic, and founder of the mission-led creative studio, Line and Honey, creating unique figurative line drawings for prints, brand partnerships, book cover commissions and more. Alongside her creative work, she lectures in Health Sciences at Regent’s University London, where she teaches collaborative, person-centred care and integrated healthcare systems. At University of the Arts London (UAL), she teaches Illustration and Inclusive Practices, working with final-year visual arts students, art educators, and programme leads.

In this conversation, Amberlee shares how her illustration practice, and Line and Honey—rooted in mindfulness and the celebration of Black womanhood—evolved alongside her academic and mental health work. She reflects on the realities of financial sustainability through her art, and the different ways she makes money from it, why creativity is more than a career and how embracing duality is a form of resistance against the pressure to “just be one thing”—A reminder that there’s no single path to being an artist.

Many thanks to Amberlee for taking the time to chat! Amber discussed so many important points during our chat, taking our conversation to nearly an hour. I will release the full version via Soundcloud later this week, but for now you can listen to the just over 20 minutes version below. I would love to hear your feedback on the conversation so do comment or get in touch by email to let me know your thoughts!

Amberlee Green Website 

Line and Honey Website

Line and Honey on Instagram 

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