MY STORY

Looking back,  I always loved drawing and generally doing anything creative.  I spent much of my childhood years sketching, colouring and painting.  Mostly, I painted horses and if I wasn't painting them I was setting up jumps in the garden to take our ever patient family dog Polly, my hobby horse or my imaginary pony around a showjumping course over and over again!  As well as spending a lot of time outdoors, cycling, sailing and horse riding.  I absolutely loved Art at school, choosing to take this subject in both my GCSEs and as an 'A' level.  I went on to take my Foundation year in Art and Design with the intention of studying this at degree level.  As much as I had a desire to create, I was also drawn to the care sector, torn between a vocation in nursing or my then desire to be a Graphic designer.  I often joked that when I grew up, I would know!  Over the following years, I married and worked in the health care sector and due to the busyness of life I gradually stopped painting. Following the birth of my third child and working in a hospice, I started to paint again for relaxation.

 

At this time Dorothy House Hospice opened up an Outreach Centre and I was given the opportunity to sell my artwork on their walls. Little did I know that this would be the start of my career as an artist!

 

In 2019 I left the hospice and was able to start working on my artwork full time. 

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In 2022 as the world was recovering from Covid and my art paraphernalia had taken over the house,  I started to look for a studio and that is where I find myself now. In a beautiful, rural retreat that I now have the pleasure of calling my studio. A dream space and location which is rapidly filling up with all the the paints, paintbrushes, canvases, frames and easels that are all a part of this kind of work.  I  love having visitors to the studio and have a comfortable, welcoming area to relax and enjoy refreshments, the view and of course, the artwork! 

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