I was delighted when Jane Stroud contacted me to say that they wanted to feature one of my paintings in the May 2018 edition of Leisure Painter. I wrote a brief history of how I started painting and how I set about painting the picture "Peonies in a Chinese Vase". This honour has boosted my morale and I want to hone my skills further so that I can achieve greater things in the future. My favourite subjects to paint are without a doubt flowers and birds, although I still have an interest in landscapes . I have only tried pen and ink, and watercolour and look forward to trying other mediums in the future. I have attached a photo of the page taken from Leisure Painter.