Artwork for Bobbie Matulja
Stunted Trees - Lizard Downs
Midsummer at Snodhill Castle
Alan in a Blue Shirt
Into The West
The Greenhouse at Stockton Bury Gardens
I Sparkle Out Among The Fern
Details
I enjoy most mediums - although I'm most comfortable with soft pastels, oil pastels and charcoal, and I enjoy painting in oil.
I'm fascinated by places, especially ones I've visited or that have meaning for me - so my favourite subject is landscape, closely followed by people and animals. I also enjoy printmaking, specially making one-off mixed media monoprints that are hand coloured with pastels.
Although I take occasional commissions, I prefer to paint subjects I have a personal connection with.
I'm a busy Churchwarden looking after 2 churches in a rural parish in South Shropshire as well as volunteering with Worcestershire County Council and the British Horse Society. My 3 horses and painting are my two escapes, and my head is usually buzzing with ideas I want to get down on paper or canvas.
After stupidly turning down a place at the Birmingham School of Art in 1981, I joined an adult education course in 2010 which re-ignited my creativity. Since then, I've enjoyed building skills and experience, taking courses with artists whose work I admire. I'm a member of Ludlow Art Society and the Ludlow Friday Group. We paint together en plein air during the summer, and indoors during the cooler months where we can choose portraiture or life drawing. I love experimenting with new techniques, including mixed media and printmaking.
I'm an amateur, so this bit is irrelevant!
I've been painting and drawing regularly for 15 years, so I'm an experienced amateur. When I re-discovered art in 2010, I took Beginners and Improvers Painting and Drawing Courses with Worcestershire Adult Education and joined an art club run by my tutor, Marie-Lise Chilcott, followed by a year with Avoncroft Art Society in Bromsgrove. After moving to Tenbury Wells, I was a member of Tenbury Art Club from 2015-19 and I'm a current member of Ludlow Art Society and the Ludlow Friday Group. I take regular courses with artists whose work I admire, including Life Drawing and Landscape Oil Painting with Vicki Norman, Portraiture with Niel Bally and Printmaking with Jacqui Dodds.
h.Art in 2019 and from 2022 - 2024; Ludlow Art Society Spring Exhibition in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and Summer Show in 2024; Ludlow Affordable Art Initiative 2023; Ludlow Friday Group Year End Exhibition from 2022 to 2024.
The only places I share my work are Instagram and with my peers on Painters Online. Although I paint for myself, I love it when people enjoy my work enough to purchase the odd piece!
