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I studied Fashion Design at Hammersmith College of Art completing my course in 1968. I worked in the trade for a few years until I married. We lived abroad for some time where I took up painting in oils. �In 1996 whilst running the art shop, I decided to apply for the foundation degree course at Kingston Upon Thames University. I successfully completed the course and was recommended to try for, and won a place at City and Guilds of London Art School. I graduated in 2000 with a BA (Hons) 2/1.�The following year we moved down to East Sussex. Hasting College of Art was close by and from 2002-2005 I made use of their print room. I enjoy both monoprinting and screenprinting.�However I have recently returned to painting in oils. I use floral images frequently in my work. This subject matter is directly linked to my love of gardening. When we moved to our present house the garden was a blank canvas, which gave me the chance to design a garden from scratch. I was lucky enough to win “The Times 2007” garden competition for best new garden. This has influenced me to use flowers and plants in a more direct way in my work�Plants play such an important part in the world, without them we wouldn’t exist, so my paintings are a small tribute to them. �

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Flowers have formed the basis of my work in various guises over the years. This is linked to my love of gardening. Plants and their flowers form a large and important part of the world. Medicines and food are but two of the things they give us. They are more to us than they seem at first to the casual viewer. They can be fragrant, fragile, bold, colourful, weeds in one place, treasures half way across the world to a collector. Their beauty cannot be copied. Without them we would not exist, so my paintings are a small tribute. They are how I see them, that is to say not just how they look, but also something of their character