The colours look similar to a rainbow, the swirling nucleus controls all the colourful elements, which change colour depending on the heat of the body.

The Cartwheel galaxy used to be like the Milky Way until it bumped into a nearby galaxy a few hundred million years ago. Rather like a rock tossed into a pond, the impact sent ripples of gas and dust outwards at great speed. The stars are created on the crest of the waves (the outer blue ring).

What does a blackberry look like up close? Beautifully textured as this image shows, but unlike raspberries, blackberries do not have tiny bristles. This means that bacteria and parasites can’t stick to them as easily. Tiny single-celled organisms can cling to the raspberry bristles and cause diarrhoea, which can lead to dehydration.

I chose my partner for the Scopic project; Blackberry, merely by chance. I was mindlessly flicking through a magazine, when I stumbled across the image of ‘The Pistol Star’ and I thought, wow! That looks just like the Blackberry from the Scopic collection. Quickly, I began to think how I could create it. I came up with many ideas, all of which sounded exciting. I am thrilled that the floating clouds of the Pistol Star, match with the Blackberry...

I picked the flu virus because we all get it. The flu virus can be very common it affects us all. The cartwheel galaxy looks a lot like the flu virus in a way. In the flu virus there is a star and in the cartwheel galaxy there is an oval. The flu virus is in the same shape as the cartwheel galaxy. The flu virus is all blue unlike the multi-coloured cartwheel galaxy, but these changes of colours doesn’t break the link of there shape and special qualities they both share...

The Cartwheel galaxy used to be like the Milky Way until it bumped into a nearby galaxy a few hundred million years ago. Rather like a rock tossed into a pond, the impact sent ripples of gas and dust outwards at great speed. The stars are created on the crest of the waves (the outer blue ring).

A close relative of the hamster the Mongolian gerbil is a popular pet. Cells from gerbils are also useful research tools for studying cancer, ageing and infectious diseases. Within the tiny sacs of gerbil lungs are cells that look like the one pictured. GeLu (Jell-Ooo) cells make collagen and other materials that help cells gel together.

The Galaxy Messier 77 is a 9th magnitude in the Cetus Constellation, and is the brightest galaxy inside it. I was intrigued by the colours and textures. It has a large star like our sun in the centre and red stars in the outer regions. It is a barred spiral galaxy and is over 47 million light years away from us.

What does a cow look like before it is born? The tiny ball of cells pictured here (the embryo) show no signs of their future form. The blue spheres are nuclei (containing DNA) inside cells. Red marks are tags on DNA that keep genes quiet until they are needed for development. The core of the embryo here seems to have more silent genes.

I chose to match the cow embryo with the super red giant because the shape and the colours matched so closely. It was fun to make and a real challenge!