NOW SOLD (21 May) This latest suffragette panel has slogans from the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and one of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society’s (NUWSS) leaders, Millicent Fawcett. There is a splendid bronze statue of Millicent in Parliament Square, London by Gillian Wearing showing the Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere banner. Read about her and the other suffragettes on Wikipedia. I used the suffragist colours of purple, white and green throughout. The slogans are hand painted, and the Deeds Not Words slogan is also on a hand painted flag on opaque cream glass. It’s framed in lead on three sides and has hand made hanging loops although I have it sitting on a window sill catching the light.

Beneath you can see an earlier suffragette hanging with Christabelle Pankhurst and Annie Kenney holding their Votes for Women banner. Again I used the suffragette flag colours; purple stood for loyalty and dignity, white for purity and green for hope.