Correspondence from
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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The image above is a photograph of the card Suzanne Bamber received from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, thanking her for the hand painted portrait titled 'Our Gracious Queen" which was in commemoration of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee.
The Process
What you can see here is a photograph of Suzanne Bamber painting "Our Gracious Queen" in her conservatory, at her home in Hightown, United Kingdom in 2012.
This series of images depict the creative process from start to finish. Many hours of work went into this painting between each photograph shown. The final image was taken when the painting was almost complete.
Suzanne received a hand written postcard from Eileen Cooper
Artist and Keeper at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
After mentioning in Suzanne's letter that it is great to see a female in Eileen coopers position for the first time in history, the postcard above was her personal response.
Suzanne Bamber's artwork also sparked much attention from the media and local newspapers.
The Liverpool Echo headline wrote-
Hightown woman delivers her portrait of the Queen to Buckingham Palace
A HIGHTOWN artist has spoken of her delight after the Queen wrote to her after she hand delivered a portrait to the Palace.