Advice please for freelance work?

I suggest you'll join a local networking group.
Create business cards and a website for yourself advertising your work/portfolio.
Ask your friends and family for referrals.
Reach out to other freelancers just outside your network group.
Reach out to your everyone else you know personally and professionally and tell them what you do and ask for referrals if they can think of someone that needs what you offer.
Ask in local agency if they require someone for some work- agencies frequently outsource.
Put yourself out there and become proactive.
Good luck :-)