The Mark Cavendish Commission

At the end of February, my local coffee shop proprietor and fellow AVP member, Glenn, had local artist, Rich Webster in residence creating a painting of one of my favourite cycling's personalities.

I met up with Rich shortly after he started putting paint to canvas, on one of my many trips to the Broom Wagon for a good coffee and a chat. It took just a few seconds, after discussing how the painting of Mark Cavendish was to be created, for me to realise that I had to have it.

Glen saw quite a bit more of me over the following week, as I dropped in to see how the masterpiece was progressing.

It was finished on the Thursday, in the week of the Grizfest and was hung alongside Lizzie Armitstead and Lucy Garner in Broom Wagon until I called to take it home on the Sunday. It now adorns one of my walls and looks spectacular. I've told Glen that during the TdF, Cav may make another guest appearance alongside the girls again!