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| I live with my family in the village of Sway, on
the southern edge of the New Forest. The forest which is now a national
park, is a very special place in central southern England between
the City of Southampton and the major holiday town of Bournemouth.
My love of the forest, its way of life and animals, especially
the ponies, has been the main inspiration for my paintings since
a very young age. I spend as much time as possible in the forest,
trying to get out every day either on my pony, walking the dogs
or both, taking a camera or painting equipment whenever possible.
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My Work.
I enjoy working in Graphite, Watercolour, Pastels & Oils, finding
each completely different to work with and that my style changes with
each medium. Although being completely self taught, I have been successfully
painting professionally since 1986. The majority of my work comes from
pet and horse portrait commissions, but there is also demand for various
New forest scenes, wildlife paintings and commercial work.
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During this time, the work has certainly been varied. I have
produced more than 30 designs for "Tuftops" kitchen
worktop savers, painted handmade clock faces & had a stall
on Lymington market for a while.
In 1999 I was invited to join the "Woodlanders", a prestigious
group of professional and semiprofessional artists and now enjoy
exhibiting annually with them at Burley, in the New Forest. I
am also a member of Sway Painters.
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I receive regular commissions to illustrate various
articles for the New Forest magazine, which incidentally featured
my profile in the Winter 1999 issue, much to my embarrassment. I
have also appeared on local TV talking about my artwork and the
forest in general.
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The New Forest & Ponies
I am a practicing commoner and New Forest pony breeder under the
" Brushwood" prefix. My ponies running on the forest carry
my "CMK" brand.
I enjoy riding on the pony drifts (round ups), which is great fun
and have competed in the Boxing day Point-to-Point several times,
being lucky enough to actually win one race.
Along with my husband Steve, we created & still run the New
Forest Equine Directory, a very popular Website covering all
equestrian activities in central southern area. We also run the
New Forest Livestock Society website for the Beaulieu Road Pony
Sales www.nfls.org
The NFED can be found at: www.nfed.co.uk |
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