For quite a while I knew I wanted to paint a group of ring tailed lemurs. One reason is that I just love them! The other reason is that a group of them is called a conspiracy!! I played around with different ideas in my head for quite a long time, not one of them making the grade. My hubby and I decided that a weeks break in Madeira was called for and we had a fabulous time wandering around the city of Funchal. We explored the city popping into little galleries and gift shops, (I came back with a rather nice fused glass bracelet) . In one lovely little gift shop sitting in the window was a canvas with a photograph of a kitten sitting inside a picture frame, light bulb moment!! The lemurs could be in the frame looking as though they would climb out of it! The beginning of my frames animal series.
