27/08/2026
When I was a teenager I loved looking at the fashion illustrations in my parents’ newspaper. I guess this was the beginning of my interest in fashion drawing. My mum cottoned on to my interest and bought me some Victorian fashion prints. Then other members of family and friends gave me some too. Soon I had dozens of them!
But my real love was always for more contemporary fashion illustration - such as work by Gladys Perint-Palmer. In my hallway, just inside the front door, is a limited edition GPP print that I bought in 2019.
In January, on a visit to Edinburgh, I was thrilled to find an original fashion drawing by Gladys Perint-Palmer in Dovecot Gallery. I decided to buy it with money left to me by my dearest fashion loving friend, Jo Kirby, when she prematurely died.
In conversation with GrayMCA gallery about the purchase, Connie said she had two original Veronica Papworth fashion drawings for sale also. This is the artist whose work had intrigued me all those years ago, when I was a teenager. So I bought those as well. I think they make the bedroom very special.
