Angel

This design was taken from a photograph of a glass angel belonging to this lady.  She wanted me to make the theme 'angels' but also to include the 'tree'. Favourite songs 'Blue Velvet' and 'When We Wish Upon A Star' are featured as are her close family members, friends and her families two dogs.

They travelled the world throughout the years and lived in Egypt, hence the pyramids and she is also a keen patchwork sewer so I decided to make a fabric feature of the pyramids.

I love the elegance of this drawing and hope to use this theme again.

Gift for mother and daughter in Turkey

I was commissioned this one for a mother and her 5 year old daughter. The strongest influence for this design is the 'fatima hand'. It appeared a lot in the information given to me about their life and Sinem loves the philosophy of the fatima hand. This was an obvious choice for me to work with. I also changed the tree format to a more delicate design to include more decorative artwork within the hand.

Sinem is a ballet dancer and loves Turkish rock star Teoman.

 Duru loves Dora the Explorer-I also included 'boots' hanging from a branch. She has a beautiful dog called Bonnie and a cat called Bianca. And a huge love of chocolate ice cream!!!


I received an email to let me know that this is now her favourite 'Fatima hand'!! How exciting.

40th Birthday gift

I was asked to design a ship for a surprise 40th. It had to include a link to France (she is a french teacher) also Italy for family connections, keen skier, plays clarinet, piano, and loves U2. The building is Shakespeare's birthplace as this is the area where she was born.

I particularly enjoyed drawing the Eiffel Tower.