My watercolour ‘A Time of Change’ which was hung at the RBA Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. In mid September as Summer changed to Autumn, I joined some 250.000 other members of the public who wished to pay their respects to Her Majesty The Queen. I was impressed by the positive mood of absolutely everyone that I came into contact with over a twelve hour long period of standing, shuffling forward and basically ‘hanging about’.

Our Queen was able to inspire and engender such a feeling of harmony and goodwill among complete strangers involved in this simple act of queueing for a few hours.