'I must compliment you on your drawing. It is an excellent likeness - much better than most of the professional pictures that constantly reach me.'

- Edmund Hillary

'It is an excellent likeness.'

- Desmond Tutu

'I could not believe how outstanding a portrait it was and how very accurate a portrayal of myself that it is. Indeed it is so accurate that it looks like a perfect photograph.'

- John Hume

'I greatly appreciate your gift - in both senses of that word.'

- Séamus Heaney

'It is indeed a very fine representation of the character of my late father and one the very best and finest amateur drawings of my father which I have seen for many, many a year. I shall treasure it as it brings back Father to me in many ways.'

- Terry de Valera

'It is a terrific likeness.... Great job!'

- Al Gore

'Thank you for your beautiful drawing of Alfred Hitchcock - it is sitting on my desk in my studio!'

- Robert Ballagh

'It is an extremely good likeness.'

- F. W. De Klerk

'Smashing drawing!'

- Norman Wisdom