HER illustrations grace banknotes and the passports of millions of people around the world.

Now, closer to home, illustrator Lydia Fee has her latest work on permanent display at a new innovation centre for start-ups and small to medium-sized businesses in Bordon.

Nine multi-media pictures were commissioned by Oxford Innovation, which manages the Base Bordon Innovation Centre, on behalf of Homes England, which opened nine months ago, after the former Edwardian officers’ mess building of Broxhead House was converted. Hampshire-based Ms Fee was given free rein by Oxford Innovation to use sepia postcards, discovered during the property transformation, as creative inspiration. She integrated the fading snapshots of the town’s military past with digital imagery to reflect the centre’s new life as a hub for entrepreneurs.

The artwork on display at Base Bordon, which has 70 per cent occupancy, with 18 firms and 58 people on site, was attended by centre users and business guests.

Oxford Innovation, which runs the centre on behalf of Homes England, said it was the UK’s leading operator of innovation centres, with 24 currently under management.

Base Bordon has 31 offices on flexible rental terms, along with co-working space, business-lounge memberships, meeting rooms and virtual-office packages.