My Mother is excellent. Whenever I speak to her about some creative work I’m trying to do, she seems to produce infinite different concepts to mine, both in line with them and completely disparate.

Fortunately I generally know what I want to do, and then do it, but if I were stuck it takes a weight off my shoulders to know that my Mum would back me up with a wealth of inspiration.

Birthday Notes. My birthday card from Mum & dad, on the first page is a selection of words copied from Roget’s Thesaurus relating to “Scratches” – one of my first University projects. I didn’t use any of it in the end, but as contextual research I think its priceless.