Jacqueline Ayer (1930–2012) had a career that spanned many creative fields. She began as a fashion illustrator, and later turned her hand to children’s books, textiles and garments, as she worked in New York, Paris, London, Bangkok, Hong Kong and across India.

Jacqueline described her childhood home as ‘a faux Tudor gardened paradise’. She drew this sketch to accompany her autobiography, as yet unpublished.