A little inspiration...

A week ago I was sent some beautiful photographs by someone who had seen my image of the dancing tiger (an etching I did last year to illustrate Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus) and been reminded of his daughter. I was so touched to receive such encouraging feed back about my work but mostly to be allowed a glimpse into such dear memories that, while I was reading Nights at the Circus and etching the girl and the tiger into their zink plate, I thought only existed in books. Let me pay tribute to these small but greatly inspiring moments by sharing a couple of the images sent to me and by saying thankyou for them.