This artist started her working life as a chemistry teacher. The art started after my retirement when, having some time to fill, I went to a ‘Drawing for Beginners’ class and discovered to my amazement that I could draw. What had started as a time-filler rapidly became a consuming interest and I have been a regular exhibitor in Artweeks since the year 2000.
This exhibition is made up of about 30 paintings, mainly landscapes, but also with a few still lives and abstracts, The landscapes are of favourite places, especially of the Lake District - my most favourite place – and also around Castelnau de Montmiral, a small bastide town in Southwest France. These are important to me because of my sessions at the Painting School there which strongly influenced my subsequent paintings, especially in the use of colour. Closer to home, the University Parks are featuring quite strongly this year! The abstracts in the exhibition are all investigations of the interaction between colours and shapes, one with another but then, so are all the paintings really.
To conclude, here is my favourite quotation from my Visitors’ Book. .-
‘WONDERFUL ABSTRACTIONS AND LANDSCAPES YOU COULD WALK INTO’
Why don’t you come and have a look?
Technical postscript - all the paintings are in either soft pastel or watercolour, or the two together, and the sizes given in the gallery are framed sizes.