Banbury

This is Banbury, from Ride a white horse to Banbury Cross. The old verse I found goes "with birds as her halo and bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes." Her eyes look real . . . they are "oiled marbles" and I ordered them from a place on the web called Rainbow Turtle.

As you can see from the sketch at the right, I planned to have a bird halo and rings on her "toes" . . . but I never quite found anything that looked satisfactory. I loved the way her sculpted head turned out and couldn't bear to add something that didn't begin to match it.