I
trained as a painter and teacher at High Wycombe Art school and at
Bretton Hall, College of Music Art and drama, in the late 50’s early
60’s and recently completed a very exciting one year Access course at
Coleg Sirgar in Carmarthen.
I
have returned to Carmarthen Art School this September and begun a
three year BA Hons course, in Fine Art, because I want to see how far
I can develop as an artist in both my painting and my thinking.
Hilariously, after the first performance to the paying London public,
my beloved daughter advised; ‘Don’t ever do that again mum. It was so
embarrassing!’ She was quite right of course. Not withstanding the
fact that we are all an embarrassment to our teenage children.
I am
a pretty awful actress, with far more ambition than talent and I stuck
to the painting at which I am better!
I
adore paint and painting. It’s a miracle to me that, when I keep at
it I produce some exciting or even sometimes wonderful, stuff.
Like
many creative people I do anything to delay the start of a new piece.
It is almost too exciting to bear, this application of paint to canvas
or paper or board. It leaves me breathless and rushing off for
another cup of tea with which I can contemplate the latest brush mark
of paint.
I
cannot wait for the future to see, with the teaching and guidance I
will receive at the hands of my teachers in Carmarthen, what I might
become capable of.
Places that have shown my work include;
The Mall Gallery,
London.
The Society of
Women Artists,
Westminster Hall,
London.
Luxtors Barn,
Henley.
The Galiardi
Gallery, Chelsea.
Carmarthen
Library.
St. Clears Arts
and Crafts Centre.
My studio at
Cilgwyn Mill House, Adpar is always open.
