This collection of works was born by happy accident. I had drawn a picture entitled "First Class", it was of my daughter trying on her new ballet slippers, it just spiralled from there. Working with lots of dancers as I do I decided to introduce my daughter, Rosie to the world of ballet. We often have very glamorous lady dancers coming around to the house before photo shoots and I bought my little girl a ballet outfit so maybe she would catch the dancing bug. Dance classes were then booked with Miss Kelly!
However Rosie is much more like her dad! She just wanted to draw and paint, dance classes for Rosie were more about the bacon buttie we had afterwards rather than the dance class itself... in-fact the only time she ever showed any dance enthusiasm was when she did an improvised dance in the deli after class which she called the sausage roll dance! I still have it on film!
Well not to let an expensive outfit go to waste, we are from Yorkshire after all, Rosie spent many happy hours in the garden and a photo of her watering the plants in pink tutu red wellies and stripy watering can gave me an idea! After consulting my ballerina friend Hayley for names this  became "The Waltz of the Flowers" and the rest as they say was history rosebud was born. I printed my earlier drawing and the waltz and the set soon took off.
Rosebud has gone on to be printed on greetings cards, note pads and limited edition prints by a major national publisher, even becoming the cover girl for the greeting cards industry magazine. 

On this page are all the works in the series as well as some additional Rosebud information.