I love it when someone says my artwork brings them joy, or that it makes them smile. Sometimes the art is quirky, sometimes naïve or playful but hopefully always entertaining.
Deciding to take my studies seriously, in 2024 I completed a Foundation course in Fine Art, receiving Distinction. That summer, a local cafe and deli invited me to display my pictures in their canal-side premises and I began to sell my work. That was a landmark moment.
I have exhibited in the Community Room in the Saatchi Gallery three years running, as part of their main gallery exhibitions – something I never dreamed would happen.
Two Temple Place chose a print and a watercolour of mine to be made into postcards, and are both now on sale in their gift shop.
My oil portrait of model Kieran made it into a Soho gallery, in an exhibition celebrating older artists.
During an art competition run by the Lord Mayor of Westminster, the judges from the Royal Academy and National Gallery said my submissions were joyful. What a moment that was!
And so the journey continues.
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