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I paint and teach in North Dorset. My work is primarily large scale oils, both portraits and landscapes, but I do love watercolours and my primary ambition is to be good at using them! My inspiration, as long as I can remember, has been faces and figures and the countryside around me. Once Okeford Fitzpaine and Bulbarrow hills, now Ashmore Down, Win Green, Hod and beyond!

I try to balance my Teaching time by being in the shed as much as possible. It is the only time I feel completely at one with the world! In a time when people find it hard to have reward from their work I feel very blessed that I am able to have my nurture time in the shed and then to also nurture others who also have a need to paint. Needless to say my students are FABULOUS!

My future plans are to venture into painting holidays and I will be giving you information about this as it reaches comprehendible status!

Thankyou to family and friends who have enabled me to reach my goal. Life takes you on a journey, I have travelled my circle and am now doing my '8yr olds' dream! My mantra is we can all achieve what we want, we have to work hard and enable ourselves to do it, but it can be done.

History

The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 1999-2001-

Diploma For Fine Art and Design.

Exhibited with Clare Shepherd at the Bell Street Gallery & Café- Shaftesbury, 2001.

Began Teaching for Adult Education in North Dorset 2001

Dorset Arts Week 2004

'Art for Blandford – in celebration of the Charter 400' – with June Lisle, Joyce Ringrose, Mary Tambini and others, June 2005

Dorset Arts Weeks 2006

'A man dies; and he disappears.', with Clare Shepherd

The Meeting House Arts Centre, Ilminster, March 2007

The Annual Summer Open Exhibition, The Meeting House Arts Centre, Ilminster, August 2007

Dorset Arts Weeks, 2008.Open House and Studio. Last week in May and first week in June.