Born in Staffordshire, England and always wanting to paint, I
finally achieved my ambition to start seriously in 1980 when an opportunity came up for
watercolour lessons with Eric Wale in Cape Town.
Jumping at the chance and having dabbled for years with drawing and
painting, I realised that this was what I had always wanted to do. Although my lessons only lasted two or three
months, I had already met several special people who were to become lifelong
friends and we started to paint together once a week. This has now been going
on for 33 years!
Now I teach watercolour in my studio at home, and paint
nearly every day, dabbling in Oils, Pastels, and Acrylics, along with my
Watercolour, with a relative amount of success.
I have given many demonstrations in Watercolour, and
workshops to aspiring watercolour painters, and belong to several art
societies.
I Joined The South African Society of Artists more than 30
years ago, have served on the committee and won quite a number of prizes for my
watercolours including the Best Watercolour in two annual exhibitions (2008 and
2011) and best Pastel in 2011
In 2011 I was awarded Fellowship of the South African
Society of Artists, which is a huge honour as well as a medal from the S A National Association
for the visual Arts.
I am a member of the Constantia Art Society and the Western
Cape Watercolour group and have won many
awards and prizes for paintings and given demonstrations and workshops for
both.
I have also been to Pietrasanta in Italy twice to sculpt in
white marble and am exploring stone sculpture in general.