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With a Cambridge art school background, Luisa Calvo is one of the UK's leading full time professional caricaturists. Luisa’s fantastic talent will amaze and delight your guests at corporate events, wedding receptions, awards ceremonies, balls, conferences, exhibitions, promotions, dinners, parties - whatever the event Luisa entertains with originality, charm and style.

Working extensively throughout Europe and the UK since 1985, Luisa has shown her talent at all manner of private and public functions, producing 12 - 15 caricatures per hour. During her European travels, she made a four month daily TV appearance, in which she sketched celebrities while they were being interviewed, including HRH Prince Phillip of Spain.

Whatever the event, Luisa entertains with originality, imagination, style and charm. The perfect ice-breaker to draw people together. Sir Trevor MacDonald was the guest speaker at an awards dinner held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane. True to form he was a real gentleman and his caricature was very well received!

The BBC were quick to spot Luisa's ability, and commissioned her work for various productions including 'Jonathan Creek', 'One foot in the grave' and 'Beasts'.

She has also appeared in front of the BBC cameras when interviewed about her work, and she produced the magnificent mural for the National Television Awards 2000 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Luisa has worked for major clients at corporate events, exhibitions, conferences, and private parties abroad including Dubai, Amsterdam, Athens, Jersey, Guernsey, Paris, Marbella and Marrakech.

Clients include: Warner Bros, Rover, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, British Airways, Glaxo Wellcome, Legal & General, BBC TV, Capital Radio, Mercedes, British Telecom, Heathrow, Alliance & Leicester, Hewlett Packard, Radio Times, Jaguar, National TV Awards 2000, Virgin, Reuters, British Petroleum, Bank of Scotland.
 
Venues include: The Tate Modern, The London Eye, Grosvenor House Hotel, The National Gallery, Alexandra Palace, Park Lane Hotels, Tower Bridge Walkway, The Natural History Museum, The London Aquarium, Kensington Palace.

Weddings: Add a touch of fun and sparkle to your wedding reception with mix and mingle caricature entertainment by international caricaturist Luisa Calvo!

Luisa draws people together with her fun cartoons of your guests at the drinks reception and wedding breakfast. Luisa's ever present smile and wicked sense of humour make her a top choice for wedding reception entertainment - book early to avoid disappointment!
 
Luisa starts at the beginning of the drinks reception and then 'table-hops' at the wedding breakfast - usually a 3 hour booking. Each caricature takes only 5 minutes - approx 12-15 caricatures per hour. Everyone is drawn on the top table, some of whom may have already been drawn during the reception and Luisa then draws some at each table around the room, so that every table is entertained by the caricatures.

You can even have branded paper for the caricatures, e.g. Sara & Mark's Wedding and the date, so that when your guests frame their caricatures, they will have a reminder of the occasion. All caricatures are presented to the guests in high quality 'spill proof' plastic sleeves.

Luisa can also produce A4 colour 'bride & groom' caricatures from photos, complete with the wedding reception venue in the background, (just send photos by e-mail as jpeg attachments) for invitations with a difference!

Fenella Soutar, Alphasense Ltd
Dear Tracey, Our 'open day' event was a great success and we had some lovely feedback from our guests.  As far as Luisa's contribution was concerned, she was perfectly charming and put everyone at ease - I believe she even managed to chat to one of our Spanish clients which was a great help as none of us is any use at languages! She worked very hard throughout the event and we had a real giggle at some of the staff caricatures she produced. Our guests were very impressed and all thought it a great idea. I should also mention how easy it was to deal with your company and I would certainly not hesitate to contact you in the future should the need arise. Thanks again and please pass on my thanks to Luisa.

Jane Ricca, Director, Columbus Ltd
Just a line to say ‘thank you’ for your fabulous contribution to the Columbus launch event at Kettners. I do admire how you manage to charm everyone into submission-even me!! You handled a lively and boozy occasion with great professionalism- well done! I was asked a few times about the work you do, so I am sure that more business should come your way as a result. Thanks again for your good humour and your talent, both of which added greatly to feel of the event.

Additional feedback for Luisa:
" .. thankyou for the caricatures of our unit manager at Blue Peter, it was an excellent likeness and very well received..."

" .. Thankyou for appearing as our guest caricaturist on children's BBC, Luisa, (thanks also for the 'behind the scenes' caricatures you did of the crew afterwards) ..."
 
" .. Many thanks Luisa! Great work on the BBC series 'Jonathan Creek' ..."

" .. Thankyou for your cartoon due to appear on the BBC 'One Foot in the Grave' Christmas Special. We all laughed a lot and thought it very clever! ..."

" .. Luisa Calvo was superb. Everyone was particularly impressed by her work. The caricatures went down very well and the clients at the London Planetarium dinner were delighted ... "

" .. I would like to express my sincere thanks for the excellent professional service received from Luisa Calvo the caricaturist at the Glaxo Wellcome company function ..."

" .. A big thankyou for making our daughter's wedding, at the Taplow House Hotel, extra special .. all our thanks for a great job, well done!... "

" .. I would like to personally thank you for your sterling contribution to the IVCA Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel, it was a brilliant evening ..."

" .. I would like to convey my thanks to Luisa Calvo the caricaturist for her excellent performance at the EBRD Finance Christmas Party ..."

" .. thank you very much for making the Nortel Christmas Celebration at Alexandra Palace such a great success. The event was truly amazing and has received a resounding thumbs-up from the 6,500 people who attended.. I would personally like to extend a heartfelt thank you for all your support, expertise and professionalism up to and including the event, and look forward very much to working with you again in the future ..."

" .. my sincere thanks for your involvement with our event at the London Cargo Centre ... your drawings were quite excellent and I know that all our guests were delighted with their souvenirs! ..."

" .. thanks for producing excellent caricatures for Daws & Associates - very much appreciated!"

" .. Luisa worked extremely hard all night and far exceeded our expectations in terms of quality and quantity of caricatures produced ..."

" .. Luisa's excellent caricature entertainment made a great impact on our guests and has been a constant talking point since the event ... "

" .. I will have no hesitation in recommending Luisa to any of my colleagues should a similar service be required ..."

" .. Many thanks Luisa for your excellent caricatures at my husband's 40th birthday. You are a very talented person and everyone was very impressed with their caricatures ..."

" .. We have received many compliments for the work Luisa did at the party... many thanks for making it a complete success ..."