October 2024 saw 10 years of The Colour Pencil Shop. To celebrate, Derwent made me a limited-edition special set of five pencils in five different colours from my Colour Pencil Shop logo that I added to a bespoke pencil case. For each set sold, a tree was planted in their name by The Future Forest Company in Dumyat, Stirling, Scotland.

I invited people to create a piece of artwork from those five pencils or the five colours in my logo – here are their creations.

I then asked members of my family and friends who have been part of my little shop for the last 10 years to each pick their favourite and I gave a little award for each.