Sandy Nairne
This small light sits in the corner of our bedroom, on top of a Bose CD player which also has a digital clock. The shade is newer, but the glass base came from my parents’ house and seems always to have been part of my life. I love the simple effect by which the light is refracted to make a luminous sphere. It connects well with music and the passing of time Cicely was an extraordinary inspirational force. Attending her memorial service in Westminster Abbey was a great privilege and another marker of the huge extent of her lifetime achievements.
Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Commissioned the 2005 portrait of Dame Cicely Saunders painted by Catherine Goodman
 
London, UK