"I spent my career as a self employed lecturer teaching finance to senior management teams around the world and hadn’t picked up a paintbrush since I was thirteen. Then a few years ago a surprise Christmas present from a desperate husband, who had no idea what to buy for me, changed everything. The “10 Painting Lessons for Beginners” uncovered a passion and helped to develop my painting ability. Inspired by the love of my garden and our landscape in all its forms, especially the trees, rivers and flowers, I set about putting down on canvas the images that caught my imagination. Walks in the country and gardens are now punctuated by “Ooh, I’ve got to paint that!”  These paintings are some of the results so far..."