about

Hi, I'm Maythe (rhymes with 'bathe' or 'lathe'), and this is Frank. Welcome to good boy illustration!

Our one-woman-one-dog illustration studio was born out of my PhD in anthrozoology at the University of Edinburgh, during which I researched and wrote about more-than-human kinship between dogs and their humans in middle-class families in Edinburgh. With a small funding from an interdisciplinary research network called Atelier in 2020, I had the opportunity to experiment with alternative and non-textual/more-than-linguistic forms of research communication. I produced a collection of illustrations called 'domestic dreams', imagining a multispecies home environment shaped by middle-class aspirations, sensibilities, and aesthetics. 

Through this process, I re-discovered my love of visual art, which reminds me so fondly of how much I love its beauty, its resonance, its humanity that is always in conversation with other species that also make us who we are. It is astounding how naturally and generatively art can lend itself to more-than-human perspectives that really make us feel what it is like to live a good life with one another across the species boundary. I am truly grateful to have found such an evocative and enjoyable a way to make research more accessible — and beautiful — and I hope you find joy, beauty, relief, humour, and warmth in my art.  

Thank you for checking us out, and please get in touch if you have any questions or inquiries!