A selection of brightly coloured tactile art arranged across a table.
Clarke, joined by Tiff from the VICTA team, leans over the artwork, touching the tactile features.
Thank you to everyone who entered the VICTA Braille Art Competition 2026!
We were delighted to once again welcome the Blind Braille Artist, Clarke Reynolds (Mr Dot) to the VICTA office to enjoy and explore all of the artwork! Clarke found it harder than ever to select his winners as he was so inspired by all of the entries. Clarke’s challenge this year was to create a piece of tactile art that would take the viewer on a magical adventure – and the entrants didn’t disappoint. Through textures, creativity and the magic of braille, we were transported to prehistoric times, fairy gardens, and even outer space!
We hope you enjoy the gallery of art and the winning entries as much as we have.
Category one: Braille your name
Children with a vision impairment, aged 0 to 10 years, were set the challenge to make their name out of braille in the most creative way possible.
Winner – Irha
Clarke smiles as he holds up Irha’s artwork
Congratulations to Irha, whose winning tactile artwork uses bright red pom poms arranged to represent her name in braille. The background features energetic splashes, lines, and textured marks giving it a bright artistic feel. The paint she used has textures in it to help her when choosing which one she wanted. We love how lively and confident it feels to look at and to touch!
Clarke commented “I feel like I’ve been on the creative process with you!”
Runner-up – Juliana
Clarke smiles as he holds up Juliana’s artwork and points to the hearts.
Well done to Juliana who arranged raised heart shapes across a soft pink background. Each heart is layered and decorated with small gems, creating clear braille-style dot patterns that represent her name in braille. The hearts vary in size, texture, and colour, making it a fun celebration of braille.
The entries – braille your name
Molly
Molly’s first tactile artwork spells her name across the page using raised stickers arranged in neat vertical columns. Each letter is formed from leaf and dinosaur shapes that stand out clearly under the fingers, inviting left-to-right exploration. Beneath the name, the words “Dino Braille!” are written in thick, textured paint, with a dinosaur sticker placed at each bottom corner.
Molly’s second tactile artwork features a playful collection of small ‘Sylvanian Family’ animal figures arranged in clear rows and columns to represent Molly’s name in braille. There’s a hedgehog, cat, monkey, squirrel, mouse, rabbits, dogs, and a cute polar bear wearing a jumper!
Klarisa
Klarisa used tealight candles to spell out her name in braille, arranging them on sheets of pink and black sugar paper. The paper is full of textures, decorated with feathers and glitter. Well done, it has so many lovely sensory elements!
Clarke’s Challenge: Adventure!
Ages 0 to 13 years
This category invited children to join in and celebrate Mr Dot’s first children’s book ‘Mr Dot and his Magical White Cane Adventure’ by sharing their own dream adventures.
Winner – Daisy
Save the World House
Clarke opens the hinged door on Daisy’s house design and smiles while holding the artwork.
Daisy’s has created a ‘Save the World House’ where ‘Beauty’ the Fairy lives!
Her scene centres around a small wooden house with a hinged door in the centre which opens. It has been painted bright pink and purple with beads added for texture. Glittery stars, soft cloud-like textures, and layered decorations surround the house, while a fairy figure and butterfly add playful detail. The braille at the top reads ‘Beauty the Fairy’.
“It has everything you need to save the world inside and smells of strawberries. Daisy painted her fairy door with paint pens, puff paint and added some colourful balls. Inside the house there is a strawberry air freshener and she has drawn all the things you need to save the world. She used glitter and glue for Beauty’s wings and paint pens for her body. She stuck on the stars and cotton wool snow, Beauty’s name in stickers and in braille. At school she brailled a bit about her adventure in her braille lesson.
Clarke was so amazed when he opened the fairy door “It’s like smell-o-vision!”. Well done Daisy, we loved all the magical details in your artwork.
Runner up – Macy
‘Pie in the Sky’
Clarke feels the textures grass on Macy’s rainbow design as he holds up the artwork.
“Macy wanted to make the rainbow out of materials that she associates with the colours so that blind children can feel the colours of the rainbow. The pie was inspired by a cuddly toy in the head teacher’s office. She thought it would be funny and magical for Mr Dot to meet a pie flying in the sky… “That’s not something you see everyday, is it?” she laughed.”
Macy’s rainbow features petals for the red arch, orange peel for the orange arch, sweet wrappers for yellow, artificial grass for green, tissue paper for blue and velvet material for purple. Her felt pie is wearing glasses, has arms and legs and a smile. She has decorated the background sky using wavy blue lines.
The details to the colour associations was what really impressed Clarke too “I love the textures, the rainbow is amazing and I like how you’ve thought about synaesthesia too!”
The entries – adventure!
Molly
Mermaid Adventure
In this detailed tactile artwork, Molly created a sea and beach scene filled with layered fabrics and textures. A mermaid figure sits at the centre on a textured fabric rock, with pink wool hair and a white lacy tail. Around her, fabric sea plants, shells, fish, and a turtle are spread across the sea. The beach at the top of the page is decorated with a cut-out campervan, a parasol and a beach hut with a raised path leading up to it. The mix of materials and careful placement gives the piece a lively, storybook feel that is rewarding to explore through touch.
Eitan
Leaning Tower of Pisa Adventure
Eitan combined braille and LEGO to represent his dream adventure. Raised braille dots are laid out on paper, while a tall tower made from interlocking bricks stands beside them.
Erin
Erin’s BRAILLE mission!
Erin wrote and exciting adventure story all about braille for her entry! Here’s the opening paragraph to give you a teaser of her exciting tale!
“It was a very boring day. Until A mission came on the news. The mission was only for visually impaired people; A secret braille code is buried in France. The secret code was buried by Louis Braille who wanted to help blind people to communicate. I knew that this mission was meant for me I had to be the one to find it. So, I find the greatest captain of all time, captain Maddog and her crazy crew. They are at the pirate ship waiting for me and my family to sail across the sea. But first we need to get the train from Crewe to Bristol.”
Well done Erin, keep up the story writing!
Lilwenn
Lilwenn has created a colourful adventure scene using foam shapes and gem stickers. Black tissue paper forms a hilly ground at the bottom of a blue paper page. Standing on the black surface is a cute brown big cat! He is decorated with orange gems and has a triangular orange nose and wobbly eyes. Large green tactile plants tower over the animal giving a jungle effect. At the bottom Lilwenn has represented her name in braille using raised gems.
Clarke’s Challenge: Adventure!
Ages 14 to 29 years
Winner – Bella
Adventure to Fairyland
Clarke holds up a picture of Bella’s artwork and smiles.
Congratulations to Bella who created this magical 3D piece of art. Bella has described here artwork for you to enjoy:
“I am going on an adventure to Fairyland. I have made the path to the entrance of fairyland. I made a bright yellow fairy door with a raised glittery swirl at the top, a pink door handle made out of a bead, and it has a little wooden hook on the door with a sign that says welcome to Fairyland in print and braille. The door frame is grey and it has a rough texture to make it feel like stone. The door has brown hinges with little metal rings attaching the door to the door frame.
There is a wooden sparkly bridge at the beginning of the path made out of lollipop sticks, pipe cleaners and glitter glue. On either side of the path there is a bright red toadstool with little white raised spots and wooden stalks. For the main path I made lots of paper flowers with four different colours. Pink, blue, yellow and green and lots of different textures to feel. Some are spikey, some are wavey, some are firm and some are floppy. They make a wavey path up to the door. Over the path there are magic floating stepping stones. I put wooden circles on florist wire to make them look and feel like they are floating. On the second stepping stone I made a plasticine model of me walking along the stepping stones. I am wearing blue dungarees with a green t shirt underneath. My curly hair is in bunches with little red bows. I have one red croc and one green croc and I am holding my white cane. When you get to the end of the path you can peek around the door and you can see lots of sparkly fairy dust waiting to take you to Fairyland.
Clarke was captured by the whole adventure, telling us “The audio description of the journey through the piece is amazing!”
Runner up – Fabiha
There’s Braille on the Rock
Clarke smiling while holding up Fabiha’s art.
Fabiha’s artwork captured an incredible adventure and really ignites the imagination! As Clarke noted “It looks like it belongs in a comic book!”
Fabiha shows an elfish featured girl with long pink hair in bunches standing in a grassy landscape. She is reaching out to explore a large stone engraved with braille. The stone’s rough surface and raised markings contrast with the smooth painted sky and softly drawn clouds above. Flowers and grass fill the foreground, while birds fly overhead, adding a sense of openness and calm. It has a fantasy story feel, with the figure drawn in a style similar to Manga characters.
Rajvinder
Adventure to Fairy World
“My adventure would to go to a fairy world, where giants, fairies and animals are talking to one another and are friendly. So I can play with animals, climb a floating ladder to go up in the clouds and pick fruit off trees when I’m hungry and talk to giants, birds, animals and the fairies It’s lovely and hot weather too. A happy place for me to travel with my cane.”
Rajvinder created a bright scene with a striking yellow background and a large felt tree standing at the centre. The tree is decorated with raised shapes and small figures arranged around it, including birds, rabbits and fairies. Layered grass, woodland leaves and toadstools and a ladder to the clouds, all add to the magic of this tactile artwork.
Prince
Map of Jamaica
Prince has created a tactile outline of Jamaica by using swell paper. The map has been cut-out and pasted onto a sheet of green paper. Inside the map is decorated with green and black foam circles and yellow corrugated paper. Below are raised circles representing the word ‘Jamaica’ in braille.
Lily
Flag of India
Lily recently visited India and used the flag to represent her adventure. She has added strips of green and orange textured papers to white paper to create the stripes of the flag. In the centre is a blue circle made from corrugated paper. Raised dots at the bottom of the artwork represent the word ‘India’ in braille.
Entries from groups and schools
Groups and schools supporting children and young people with a vision impairment were invited to enter a category of their choice!
Winners – Primary Setting
Little Buds Nursery (age 4)
Congratulations to our winners who created this beautiful, tactical, braille inspired rainbow!
A tactile paper rainbow created of different coloured blocks of paper – which each contain a tactile braille letter, to spell the artists name! To represent the braille, they have used pom poms, stickers, gummy bear shapes, pegs, and buttons. Below the rainbow sit a ladybird and foam stickers set among scribbled grass-like marks. In the bottom right corner, a small open red box contains chocolate gold coins. The lid is decorated with lots of red glitter. At the top of the page a sun sits on the left and a raining cloud on the right, both stuck on to add more tactile elements to the page.
Winners – Secondary Setting
New College Worcester
Congratulations to our winners – students at New College Worcester!
The students each created beautiful personal pieces of art, each representing their adventures. From out of space, to tropical islands, their artworks have been brought to life through textures and imagination!
Well done to all of the students who took part. Clarke commented: “Love the white cane adventures, especially the space themed ones. The illustrations look like they should be on the cover of children’s novels.”
We hope you enjoy your pizza party!
Bella
Unlocking the Galaxy
A large keyhole cut-out from a beige sheet of paper revealing a space scene which is layered behind. The black space scene is decorated with raised star shapes and swirling dotted patterns. Flat circular shapes representing planets are positioned at different heights within the keyhole, each with a distinct smooth surface. The keyhole is outlined with a wide gold border that creates a raised edge.
Ed
A Walk Along the Sand
A tactile artwork on white paper featuring raised braille dots arranged in structured rows across most of the page. Watercolour paint is brushed over sections of the braille to create a sea, sand and sky painting, with a blue area near the top, a yellow band across the middle, and green painted shapes near the bottom. The braille dots remain clearly raised beneath the paint, creating a layered texture across the surface.
Zaki
On Top of the World
A bright and colourful collage showing a large tree made from layered green tissue paper forming a textured canopy. Several flat orange circular shapes are placed across the canopy. A brown painted trunk runs vertically down the centre of the page. Standing on the top of the tree, a small painted human figure stands with arms out wide!
Aliyah
Cubist Planet
A tactile collage on a black background with a large red square positioned centrally. The red surface has a crinkled texture and contains faint raised braille dots arranged in lines. On the right edge of the red square, several narrow vertical strips of glittery orange material are layered, extending slightly beyond the top edge. Small white speckled marks are scattered across the black background around the square.
Elonia
A tactile piece on white card with rows of evenly spaced braille dots covering the upper two-thirds of the page to create a bus. Near the bottom left and bottom right are two symmetrical looped shapes made from thick cord or ‘Wikki Stix’, each crossed by a darker strand, making the wheels of the bus.
Finn
Expedition Braille
A collage on a dark blue background decorated with gold stars showing a space scene. A circular moon has been cut from corrugated paper sits top right and a rocket shoots up towards it. The rocket has been created from different textured papers, with an orange stripe through the middle. Written across the orange stripe in bold black pen is the word ‘BRAILLE’.
Rory
Space
A black background with a space scene collaged on top. A white paper rocket shoots up towards four decorated planets. The rocket has been decorated with green textured tissue paper, with orange tissue paper flames coming from the bottom. Each of the planets have been decorated using paint marbling, giving them different colours and patterns.
Ruby
Lost Island of Fossils
Ruby has created a colourful island scene by sticking yellow tissue paper onto a light blue background to create her lost island. She has used bright, light-blue tissue paper along the bottom to represent the sea and a circle of yellow in the top-left corner for a bright sun. On the island are two scattered fossils – Ruby has created them by painting small sticks white and arranging them in the shape of fossilised bones.
Thomas
Adventures in Space
A tactile collage featuring a space scene with circular planet shapes arranged across a black background. Each planet is made from coiled ‘Wikki Stix’, creating a raised spiral texture, with each planet having a different pattern and colours. To the left a large sun bleeds of the page. A small astronaut figure floats above the planets holding out their white cane.
Winning entries by an organisation – RSBC
Congratulations to all the young people at RSBC who entered the competition, using braille to create very individual pieces of art.
Enjoy your prize, we hope you can treat yourselves to art materials so you can keep creating!
Rebecca
Rebecca made beads out of air-drying clay and using the palms of her hands to roll them. She then put a piece of spaghetti through the clay to make the holes in the beads. The clay was left dry and then she painted them with a fine paint brush with acrylic paint. Rebecca then set them out on black paper to represent RSBC in braille.
Lee
Lee created a raised map of the world by printing onto swell paper. He has then labelled the map with countries using braille.
Jake
Jake has created a large heart by embossing braille dots onto white paper to create the shape.
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