I recently received an e-mail from Frinton Press asking whether I would be interested in designing a repeating pattern which would be tiled to create a wrapping paper design which would be sold along with others at various Christmas fairs around London. The competition would be unpaid but it sounded like fun and also a useful bit of self promotion so I decided to have a go. I’m currently doing an ongoing project based on Birds of paradise so I thought this would be a nice opportunity to try out some ideas. Unfortunately my wrapping paper hasn’t made it into the final booklet, but I rather like the design which I came up with and I think it’s given me some ideas for future work.