For as long as I can remember, I have designed, sewed, drawn
and painted. I remember winning a case of coloured pencils in a Road Safety
poster competition at Junior school. My parents bought me oils and an easel
afterwards as an encouragement, but the only place I could use them was in the
attic and I was lonely, so I only ever painted one picture of Santa on a
sleigh.
I dabbled for years in my spare time, trying many techniques
and crafts as I followed a career into nursing. Then as I approached a major
birthday, a neighbour advised me,
‘You know, if you don’t do what you want to now,
you may never get the chance. We’re all getting older.’
I enrolled on an Art
Access course there and then, and never looked back. It was from a module on
that course, that I became fascinated with glass and further developed my
skills in my spare time whilst continuing working as a nurse until the last
year of my degree, when art became totally obsessive and nursing took a back seat.
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