Shortly after Flick died I contacted an artist to have him preserved as a work of art. Leah Davies does pet portraits in a number of mediums and after some discussion with her and some consideration I commissioned her to do a pencil drawing of my too quickly departed cat.
I liked the look of her drawings and to me it felt right. It would be like a fading memory, still with me but softened. The picture I chose for her to work from was one I’d shared after Flick died, of him helpfully sitting in the empty water dish.
