Butterflies and Flowers

It has taken many hours of painstaking work but now my butterfly globe is finally finished and back where it belongs.

My etching features a mixture of flowers and butterflies etched freehand. I wanted it to look as if they are growing up the lower part of the globe reaching for the sunlight.

This teardrop globe tops my sculpture called "Tree of Light", which was commissioned by Bolton NHS Charitable Fund​ for their 'Baby Loss Memorial Garden"

The sculpture is in bronze resin and features a tree rooted to the earth with branches morphing into the hands of dads, mums and siblings all reaching toward the sky to release the sprit yet hold onto the memory.

The globe is an inverted teardrop, encapsulating a light reflective rainbow butterfly, as a symbol of the lost sprit. Most importantly, the teardrop butterfly globe reflects the world up-side-down, to symbolise the turmoil of bereavement.