I found a wall for the portrait and hung it ready for when the kids and Lorraine returned.

I’ll let you into a secret: I felt quite emotional as I stepped back and admired your creation. Obviously we have photos but they evoke a different reaction. Perhaps it is the significance of the present and the response it brought from Lorraine and the guests. I think it is something more than that though and the title of your business provides the key.

That painting brings alive so much of our lives at present: where we live, our kids who have become so interwoven into our lives at the age they are now which capturing them at the time when Mum becomes even more fabulous and forty! I have never thought about it before but I wondered how my mother who passed away some years ago would have reacted to seeing her grandchildren brought to life through the oil on canvas.

Now the party is over and there is time to reflect I wanted to share with you what your talent brings to wherever your work appears. You truly do bring art to the heart.

Thank you