A wee while ago, I set students at one of my art classes a light-hearted challenge to design their own Delft tile. The challenge was intended to inject a bit of variety into the classes and to see what individual, personal designs each student could come up with.

We didn’t work on tiles, but the paintings were to be tile-sized, compositions needed to reflect the design of Delft tiles, and the medium was ideally to be handled in a vaguely Delft-tiley way.

This is a photo of my demonstration piece, which I made as rapidly as possible in acrylics on watercolour paper. The centrepiece of my design is a painting of a small Postman Pat figure, which my eldest son used to enjoy playing with when he was younger.