Born in Yorkshire in very late 50s, I was never very interested in art at school, despite the valiant efforts and enthusiasm provided by Mrs Langley in the Art Department at Queenswood School;  although I did attain an AS level in Studies of Art!   After studying  Recreation Management at Loughborough University, I  pursued a career in Sports administration  culminating in working at the  Los Angeles Olympic Games.   After a brief period in administrative/financial  work in the City of London,  I took a year off to do a PGCE in Primary Education at Wall Hall College.   Seven years of teaching in Barnet and then St Albans was followed by the birth of twin boys.    It was  then that the lack of time to play sport coupled with the inspiration from my father who is an amateur artist  in Yorkshire, which  led me to an Evening class on 'How to draw' followed by weekly Watercolour classes.   I have also pursued silk painting making cushion covers, scarfs and ties and  recently candle making.

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In the last few years,  I have been to some Acrylic workshops and residential art courses with my father and have begun to enjoy a more mixed media approach as well as the more simplistic pen and wash and have enjoyed the challenge of commissions.   In 2020 I held an 'Open Studio type' event  at home which included 'have a go wet in wet' as well as the sale of Paintings, prints and cards for charity

 

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 Since 2015 I have been turning my  pictures into cards and to sell them for charity and to date the following charities have or are benefiting from the sale of my cards:

Youth Talk

Hope and Homes  for  Children

Hospice UK

Alzheimer's Research

Herts Air Ambulance

The Happy Home in Nepal

The Peace Hospice

The Hospice of St Francis 

GOSH Children's Appeal

Rennie Grove Peace  Hospice