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I was born during one of the worst winters on record in Sharoe Green Maternity hospital, Preston.
Brought up on a post-war housing estate, archived drawings (aged five) already show a keen eye for detail such as washing on a line and fluff under a bed.
By the age of nine I was copying photos of the stars from the Radio Times and had decided to become an artist, feeling that my inherent shyness precluded a career as an air hostess.
I studied at the Harris Art School in Preston, a grand neo-Classical building with sweeping steps leading to Avenham Park and the river.
An extra year's Foundation Course was spent at the palm-clad Falmouth School of Art.
Thence to London, leading to a Diploma in Art and Design from the Central College of Art, studying under such illustrious names as Cecil Collins, Colin Cina and Paul Huxley.
I now divide my time between Brittany in France and the North West region of England.
I tutor Drawing and Painting courses and Painting holidays in France at: www.lagebaston.com/
I have work in galleries:
Colin Jellicoe, Portland Street, Manchester, England.
See Gallery, Binns Street, Crawshawbooth, Rossendale, England.
Artifex Gallery, Birmingham, England.
Vermilion Gallery, Knutsford, Cheshire, England.