Our Gracious Queen by Monica Vincent

Monica is a self-taught 3D and digital artist. Constantly inspired by her hometown, and the UK’s Southern art capital, Brighton. A mother of two young girls, Monica uses whatever free time she can spare sketching, photographing or realising her works using three-dimensional digital mapping & layering techniques.

As an artist her creations are finished digitally, but begin on her much-thumbed sketchbook & within her extensive back catalogue of her own photography. Drawing passion and muse from a wide range of artistry, she feels equally at home adoring the works of the great masters as she does savouring the work of the greatest traditional tattooists.

‘I try to let my artwork speak for itself, but I love crazy patterns, ink culture and paintings that are older than the houses they hang in! If I’m not designing tattoo flash, I’m making my own comic book designs in my spare time. Or at least what is left of it!’. Vincent began exhibiting nationally in 2017 following success as a local artist on the south coast. Her artistic licence has its own recognisable flavour which is based around mixing the iconic with the surreal. ‘Although digital layering is nothing new in the art industry, ‘I like to think that my take on such themes that I’m currently experimenting with will at least encourage a smile rather than to impress a serious critic.’

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926)^[a] is Queen of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth realms.^[b]

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). Her father ascended the throne on the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII in 1936, from which time she was the heir presumptive. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In 1947, she married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, with whom she had four children: Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.