My art teacher at high school
suggested that I should never give up art and now I'm
wishing that I could show her my new life in art. New
experiences, new people and new challenges, painting makes me
feel so alive.
This is my
re-birth into art: Born in Northern Ireland, I have always had a
great interest in colour and texture and have spent many years
working on tapestries and weavings. The ‘old’ country's love of
the arts allowed me to feel free to express myself in fabric and
it is a natural growth for me to grow into painting. Painting
scenes of Northern Ireland just reminds me of my childhood and
chilly days watching the loveliest coast in the world.
North York Visual Artists
was
the first art group that I joined. I became President this group
and for four years worked with a wonderful group of people
pursuing their love of art.
My primary focus is a landscape
artist: many of my works include Irish coastal scenes, still life
studies, scenes of Italy, and abstractions of forest and
wind/movement. The masters I have studied are: Van Gogh, Emily Carr,
JMW Turner,
Tools of the trade
– Oils, Watercolours
leading into mixed media and more recently pastel. |
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