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For as long as I can remember, I wanted to paint pictures. I spent many hours sketching as a child and when my schoolmates called… |
For as long as I can remember, I wanted to paint pictures.
I spent many hours sketching as a child and when my schoolmates called
to invite me to join them in their games and recreation, I usually made
excuses and preferred to draw and paint.
Realizing this was not
healthy if carried to extremes, my parents insisted I find other
interests as well. Both my late parents were pianists. My mother was
a classical pianist and my father played Jazz, Rag Time and Swing. I
studied piano for many years.I was trained in the fifties and
sixties by the late George Collie, RHA and later I was tutored by the
renowned Irish Art Master -Thomas Ryan, PPRHA, hon RA, hon RSA.I
paint in the Realistic Representational art form, mainly in oils and
sometimes in acrylics, pastels and charcoal. I enjoy painting
portraits, landscapes, seascapes, lighthouses, architectural subjects,
animals and wildlife. I also paint floral subjects and still life. I
draw and paint figurative life studies and human anatomical drawings.I hope you enjoy my work.
