100th birthday 23 August 2008 - photos by Kush Budha

Visitors to Westacres on Hannah's birthday included actress Miriam Margolyes - who'd flown in that morning from Chicago! The local MSP and MP Ken Macintosh and Jim Murphy also dropped in. Jim, who's Minister for Europe in the current Labour government, took time out of his own birthday celebrations to share some chocolate with Hannah - though he was born on 23 August 1967, shares a birthday with Hannah - though he was only born in 1967, nearly 60 years after our illustrious artist.

photos by Kush Budha, Cathy Hornby and George Coupe

Bill Laughlin from 2Canvas, Stockwell St, Glasgow, with Hannah Frank in her room in the Care Home in Newton Mears with a 24"x30" canvas reproduction of 'Mocking Fairy' (1931) next to one of Hannah's original drawings, 'I sought him but I found him not' (1935). You can see one of her 'double figures' in the background, and also 'Girl at window' (1946). For more info about canvas reproductions of Hannah Frank's art - available from 1st Nov 2007 - go to the 2Canvas website on www.2canvas.co.uk . Part of the proceeds of every sale come back to us to help to 'make Hannah Frank a household name'.#

More birthday pix 23rd August 2007, 99 today

the sculpture is one that Auntie Hannah made of the next door neighbour, now Val de Villiers - nearly 50 years ago!