Charlie Wrigley’s drawing, #46 (right), has been chosen as the public’s favourite at this year’s TALPOpen exhibition, winning The Artist’s People’s Choice Award, sponsored by Faber-Castell, and £250 worth of art materials from Faber-Castell. Charlie explains that the drawing took her around three weeks to complete, ‘...working through the evenings after coming home from my full-time job at a motorbike shop, ‘ she explains. ‘Some nights I stayed up until 3am. The piece is part of a collection I was working on, featuring portraits of my favourite racers. When I had little to no money, I would buy two Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils a week. I was gifted a tin of Faber-Castell 9000 graphite pencils that lasted me a very long time, but my entire collection was put in the bin during a house move, so to win the Polychromos set was a godsend! My collection is finally complete again, and I’m ready to start some more drawings.’