My Creative Nature

Like so many, my journey as an artist started at a very young age. I can see now as my youngest child is in his second year of school just how early it must have been within me. There are so many similarities, he is always so meticulous about his work and incorporating some kind of drawing. I remember doing this as a child, spending hours on a drawing for no other reason than being immersed in the art.

As a child, I remember being drawn by the smell and feel of a fresh packet of pencils and had a longing for those special “Derwent Artist” pencils that the others had in my class (many people I meet today tell me this is their experience also). My creative