The Garden Party Begins here, a watercolour composition by Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo has been sold from the Design is Everything exhibition. The purchasers are avid collectors of the artist's work.

In this watercolour, Katherine Mansfield stands before her childhood home, surrounded by the roses that so often bloomed in her stories. The painting imagines the house not just as a setting, but as a seed, the place from which The Garden Party and so many of her vivid worlds first took root. This was her design imperative; the interplay between image and text.