The new work was begun during a conservation treatment in 2009, when conservators found that the yellows in Flowers In A Blue Vase - this time from a pigment called cadmium yellow - had turned greyish and cracked.
Nicky now realises she does have some signs of OI: poor, pearly or translucent teeth, a greyish tinge to her eyes which look similar to her brother, Wayne, who has been diagnosed as suffering OI, and loose joints.