COMMISSIONS

Private commissions

Commissions are a beautiful way to bring to life old family images hidden away in photo albums, celebrate a loved one, or immortalise a glamorous ancestor... and they make extra special handmade presents!

Working with both historical and new images, I provide a personalised service throughout the process: from helping to select photos, to incorporating special elements, colours, flowers etc to the final hand-finished touches in watercolours or shimmering powders.

Prints can be created at any size.

There may be a waiting list for commissions, please get in touch and I can let you know estimated waiting time.

Daisy and Nora Private Collection

Hand-painted charcoal and bronze powder screen-prints, using family photographs.

These hand-painted photopolymer etchings draw on a personal collection of photographs from school dance classes. The theatre sets were all handmade in my studio and then photographed, while the dancers — students captured in unusual, often expressive or semaphore-like poses — were originally photographed the clients aunt a dance teacher in the 1940s.

They provided a wonderfully rich starting point for this commission. My client, who works in television and film, was particularly drawn to my use of maquette-style sets. For her, I hand-built two bespoke scenes, incorporating personal motifs such as Greek columns, a crab, and swans — symbols with special meaning to her and her family.

I loved creating these intimate, narrative pieces, which both celebrate and reinterpret a family legacy through the language of theatre, dance, and handmade craft.