Quoil

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Flag by Lisa West

I'm intrigued by flags; the motifs and colours chosen to represent and unite a group or country and what those visual images symbolise.

Flags can inspire strong emotions; patriotism, militarism and religious fervour.

My Flag Brooches are compositions of shapes and colours that use a fictional language of symbols to tell stories about imaginary places.