Dear All, thanks for all your kind comments and apologies for not responding sooner. I couldn't access the site for a while (presumably because of the make-over) and thought it might have been taken down. Now that I'm able, I'll be posting some new stuff soon. In the meantime, here is a work in progress of my dear old mammy:

She looks great Lewis :)

Missed this! Very nice portrait!

Thanks Cynthia. It's not looking great now though, as I decided to scrape it back, then started again on a new canvas, and have just scraped that back! The above was my second effort so I'm now onto number four. A bit vexing.