There's something different about making a piece for someone specific. When I'm working on a piece for myself, exploring a colour, chasing a feeling, following the ink wherever it wants to go (sometimes off the bloody page...) it's a pretty solitary thing. Just me, the studio, good tunes and whatever mood the day brought in with it. But a commission is a conversation. It starts with someone telling me something they love, or someone they love, or a space they want to feel dif