Design Description

With the wonderful positive messages and colours chosen by Martin Dougan, we wanted Martin’s quotes to be loud and proud, bright and beautiful. The rocket represents our journey - our message reaches for the stars. Be proud of who you are.

The Quickie Q300 Mini M powered wheelchair has been generously supplied by Sunrise Medical, which enables ‘A Proud Message to You’ to explore the trail with his mini-Morph friends

Artists Information

Martin is a television presenter. Born with cerebral palsy, Martin has been a wheelchair user all of his life. For almost ten years Martin hosted CBBC’s Newsround and has covered two Paralympics and two consecutive Commonwealth Games. On top of this, Martin has represented Scotland at wheelchair basketball.

Elaine is an artist and illustrator, specialising in illustrative architectural paintings, and has embarked on many interesting projects and collaborations, including the Tunbridge Wells platform 2 mural, book illustrations, illustrated town and tourism maps, as well as commissions with the National Trust. Working mainly by commission, ‘Your story illustrated’ is a very special and specific style of Elaine’s work, a beautiful personalised piece of bespoke art depicting your special places and cherished memories. Elaine also took park in Wild in Art’s Elmer’s Big Art Parade, raising funds for Heart of Kent Hospice.

Sponsor Information

Sunrise Medical is a world leader in the development, design, manufacture and distribution of manual wheelchairs, powered wheelchairs, mobility scooters, mobility aids and both standard and customised seating and positioning systems. Our key products, marketed under the Quickie, Zippie, Breezy, Sterling, JAY, Coopers and Lomax proprietary brands, are sold through a network of homecare medical product dealers or distributors in over 130 countries.