Amy Carpenter has a background in design, illustration and the educational publishing world. She has worked on award winning products such as sparkyard.com and designed and illustrated dozens of musicals, songbooks, nativities and curriculum resources which can be seen in nearly every primary school in the UK.

Alongside her freelance design and illustration projects, Amy is always making things and is passionate about ARCADE's vision that everyone is creative and is excited to help make this happen in her hometown. She also enjoys running and singing (not at the same time) and has a love/hate relationship with her Instagram character, Alan Swan.