Having not studied art at school, I started dabbling in painting about 10 years ago, then about two years ago started to spend an increasing number of hours immersed in concentration, with paint on my hands and face, totally losing track of time. My journey started with a course run by the Welsh Academy of Art and since then, I have to date, attended workshops with some wonderful artists, Roger Dellar, Aldo Balding, Jenny Aitken, Julian Merrow Smith and James Naughton.

I love the workshop atmosphere, where you learn not only from the tutor but from other artists, Best of all, you have given yourself all day, every day of the course, immersed in painting and this wonderful feeling has been my raison d’être for setting up the studios here.