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<p class="font_7"><span class="color_34">In 2018 a dear friend suggested I 'had a go' at oil painting. </span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span class="color_34">Picking up my late fathers oil paints and brushes were a way of being close to him&nbsp;and my grandfather. Both were amateur&nbsp;artists, my father was more comfortable with&nbsp;watercolour&nbsp;and my grandfather a lover of oils.</span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span class="color_34">I've always been creative, but never with paints.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span class="color_34">I love nature and plants and trees and clouds and sky's&nbsp;and water. I love how light creates&nbsp;shapes and shadows, mood and atmosphere and if I can capture even a small amount of the wonder of the natural world around us, I&nbsp;will be content and if someone loves it too, all the better.</span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span class="color_34">4 years on I have successfully sold many paintings and completed a number of commissions, for which I have received wonderful feedback.</span></p>
<p class="font_7"><span class="color_34">I have recently left the NHS after 22years to concentrate on painting and my new gallery business The Artful Duck in Raunds.</span></p>
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