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Nature printing

My painting life constantly evolves, and it has been a natural and instinctive progression for me to move towards tree subjects, as if I am going back to my roots. When I was born, my father had a house built at the edge of a wood on Beechwood Lane. My childhood was spent playing among the beech, oak, rhododendrons and horse chestnut trees. I now have a house with a magical, wild-wooded garden. It feels like living within a folkloric fairy tale and that I am still breathing my childish dreams. I would love to think that by sharing them with you it might inspire you to express your own fantastical ideas. Woodlands

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