I have been meaning to share this with you for a long time… And I thought Valentine’s Day was the perfect occasion to do so..!
It all started in 2009 when I was commissioned by the Office of Public Works to paint a piece for the reception area of Muckross House in Killarney… The summer after, “M”, a lovely American tourist was visiting Ireland and saw the painting and liked it so much that she wrote me an email about it…
A few months later, her boyfriend contacted me to commission a piece for M… (How sweet is that…) I talk a little more about it in this post from 2010.. She was so over the moon…!
“Strawberry Hills”, hanging in New York City.
The story doesn’t end there… Early in 2014, Marissa contacted me to commission a piece for her boyfriend, she wanted something with a few symbols of how they met and what they mean to each other… The piece was to give him the symbolic “go ahead” that he could ask for her hand in marriage. After working on it for a couple of weeks I sent the painting and they were both so delighted…
A puzzle piece, NYC skyline and a bench park are all part of the little “symbols”…
A few weeks later I received a message from M, telling me that they had got engaged… And in July 2014 she walked down the aisle to marry her beau…
M was in touch with me again a few months later to share her pregnancy news with me, and it turned out we were to share this special time in common as I was pregnant myself with my second little boy…
M had a gorgeous baby girl in the summer of 2015, exactly one month before I had my son.
It is such a lovely story and I am very glad I was part of it a little…
I wish you all a lovely St-Valentine’s Day…!
Amélie ???
