Traditional Mediums Illustrator

Hello everyone,

First of all I'd like to say that this forum seems to be filled with interesting people and I'm sure I'll learn a lot from here.

My name is Natasha, I am a French freelance illustrator, and I have been for the last 2 years - which is the moment when I first started painting (I was exclusively doing black and white pencil drawings before).

Mostly because I got lucky, being at the right place at the right time, I have been published a few times. But I cannot always rely on luck and have to seek illustration jobs if I want to make a good living out of it (that's what most of us dream of, isn't it?).

I lived in the UK for 2 years on the past, and will be relocating in the UK once more around early 2011 (probably Manchester), but I have no idea where to start looking and what to do in order to get jobs. I know most people seem to recommend agencies but they seem totally closed to anyone from the outside.

If any of you could advice me on a procedure which could help me out, that would be wonderful.

Here's my website, if you want to have a look at my artwork:

www.klutchenko.com

Merci beaucoup.