We havent had a club member profile for a while so this week is the turn of Pauline Vinton.
I asked Pauline to write a few words about herself and she did under a ghost writer called Jim !
Jim wrote....
Retirement brought about extra hours and in 2002-2003 I enrolled with NCFE at Selby College, my Tutor was Ian Kenning who taught impressionist painting and drawing.
With no previous knowledge of art, I continued learning until 2006, when funds were cut.
I then joined Selby Watercolour Society (now Selby Art Society) and with (necessary) criticism and encouragement from various members I started to improve.
During the Selby Watercolour Society’s monthly meeting I heard my Tutor, Ian Kenning, was demonstrating at Monk Fryston Art Club. Jean Dearn let me attend as a guest, and subsequently I became a member there too.
With the renaming of the Selby Watercolour Society, to Selby Art Society I became their Secretary for 3 years.
The first picture I sold was a high point in my art life but soon discovered though, that selling art is much more difficult than producing it.
At present I am advancing my skills at pastel classes run by Catherine Inglis at Bishops Wilton. I find Art is so rewarding.
I look back on my early days in art and well remember how Helen Brown showed me how to use watercolour with my very professional one pint plastic bottle of water, two of my grandchildren’s paint brushes and some of their paints!
