The life and times of an English artist now returned to her native North , an account of paintings, urban sketchings, murals, portraits,and tutoring art courses...
Tuesday 26 May 2009
To The Chateau Borne, Part Three
By the time this is published I'll be ensconced at Chateau l'Age Baston for my fourth year, tutoring the Art Course there.
I'll let these pictures from previous years speak for themselves.
I was born during one of the worst winters on record in Sharoe Green Maternity Hospital, Preston.
Brought up on a post-war housing estate, archived drawings (aged five) already show a keen eye for detail such as washing on a line and fluff under a bed.
By the age of nine I was copying photos of the stars from the Radio Times, feeling that my inherent shyness precluded a career as an air hostess.
I studied at the Harris School of Art in Preston, a grand Neo-Classical building with sweeping steps leading to Avenham Park and the river.
An extra year's Foundation course was spent at the palm-clad Falmouth School of Art. from there I went to London, leading to a Diploma in Art and Design from the Central College of Art.
I spent twenty years in Brittany, France, and now live in the North-West of England.
My work leans towards the urban and the architectural, yet I'm equally happy with landscape, portrait, still-life and the nude.
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