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2008
has been a great year and it has only just begun! I have created a
way to help artists market their work at nominal cost –
www.softmatch.com
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.
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.
Painting has led
me into a group of artists ~ North York Visual Artists, a group of
50 artists that share a love for art. I have been the President of
this group for the last 4 years. 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 and
recently Emily Carr.
Tools of the trade
– I would have to say the Oils are my first passion. Watercolours
I have a love/hate relationship with yet somehow I have developed
watercolour techniques into oil-like abstracts. I also have been
developing pastel and conte techniques, especially on black
paper.
Creator
of SoftMatchArt -
SoftMatchART
brings works of art to workplaces
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