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Having been asked if anything was possible for forum users to get to know each other better, we have added a new area for members to introduce themselves. You don't have to be completely new to the forum to use this thread - My name is Dawn and you should all know me as the PaintersOnline editor!
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I''m guessing this right here is the new section....
name: meli (Aya when I paint)
age: 38
gender: trans
location: UK
i don't have a particular style of painting and I love all the artworks I've seen on here so far I'm looking forward to meeting new people and learning/teaching a lot :satisfied:
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Michael Edwards from South Leicestershire, born and raised in North London. I now live in a thriving village which hosts one of the countries largest scarecrow weekends and also holds an annual open gardens event in which I participate by opening both my garden and studio. Three children and 6 grandchildren.
I started life as an indentured electrician which I hated and after further study in management and law became a company secretary in the construction business. with the downturn in construction at the end of the 80s I became secretary to an NHS Trust. Following the merger of my Hospital with three other Acute Trusts I then became Head of Legal Services and deputy Director of one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country. I never went into private legal practice - I would have probably have made a lot more cash if I had - but I just loved my work so no regrets.
I love gardening and write quite a bit of poetry but my first passion is painting and though I'll never reach the busy heights I have had reasonable local success and at least I can boast having a hobby which pays for itself.
That's it in a nutshell - so who's going to be next?
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I'll go!
I'm Kay Marriott, I live in Edinburgh with my boyfriend and 11 year-old goldfish. I've been here ten years now, I'm originally from Nottinghamshire. I work for an environmental consultancy as an ecologist, which involves carrying out wildlife surveys across Scotland (I specialise in birds and plants). It's an interesting job but I'd give it up tomorrow if it was that easy to become a full-time artist!
I've been painting for a few years but only seriously in the past year or so, it was something I always wanted to do but never got around to, so I did a short course at the college last January and it sorted me out. I love using watercolours and pencils but have just started playing with acrylics too. I like painting a range of things, mainly wildlife, flowers and landscapes and I'm on a theme of industrial buildings at the moment. I've made a few sales and had one painting exhibited last month, and I'm hoping to put more effort into creating and showing more of my work this year.
Otherwise, I love writing, birdwatching, driving and playing ukulele. I also go through phases of doing lots of photography but this hasn't happened in a while!
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Hi, I am Mia Ketels. I live in Blankenberge on the Belgian Coast (15km from Bruges).
I was trained as an art teacher in the 60ties and I was teaching for a few years. Then I started a career in the administration of a secondary school.
I did not paint or draw for all those years. After retirement, I took up painting again and pen and wash was my favorite technique (as you can see in my Gallery). I bought several books and dvd's from English artists to learn using watercolour, because this was not a part of my early training.
After entering some group exhibitions, I started solo-exhibitions locally and was rather pleased about my success.
I posted a lot of works on the POL-site and entered the Forum discussions. But although I speak Flemish (a bit different from Dutch), French, German and English fluently, writing in English is a different problem (I am not that talkative!!). So, I log in to the POL-site every day and watch the gallery-postings, the threads on the Forum.
Because of health problems, I am not painting and posting for the moment. I started some sketching today and I hope to be in the Gallery very soon
:) Mia
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I'm Alan Green, professional musician (following a career in Investment Banking) from Little Cambridge (11 houses and a farm) in northern Essex; just down the road from Thaxted (where Dick Turpin was born) and close to Dunmow (which gets a mention in The Wife of Bath's Tale, one of The Canterbury Tales). We're surrounded by farmland, northern Essex is a beautiful place and it's northern Essex's best kept secret. Her Indoors, Kathy, is a nurse at one of the independent colleges in the famous Cambridge.
Music - I turned pro as a musician on the train home one Monday in 2009 following confirmation of my Investment Banking redundancy. I'd played since my teens but it was always a hobby behind the banking career. These days, I play solo classical guitar at weddings, family and corporate events, restaurants, musicals at one of the local secondary schools and any other event that needs a bit of culture added. I'm also the lead guitarist for the Essential Sounds Big Band (the leading Dance Band in the east of England) based in Harwich, which rehearses in the Constable Memorial Hall at East Bergholt. We play music by Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble and loads of stuff where you listen to it and think "Oh, yeah; I know that" but had no idea who it was by or what it was called. I teach guitar for the Essex School Music service cos nobody gets married at 9 o/c on a Monday morning, as well as privately. I've played with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (a one-off world exclusive), the Essex Guitar Orchestra (one world premiere plus a load of other gigs around the UK) and the Cambridge Guitar Orchestra (listen out for my lead guitar work on "Beck's Bolero" on their third album). I've been on community TV in some small town on the New York/ Massachusetts border, and radio in Dunmow.
Art - I've always wanted to be able to draw, but it had to take a back seat while I was working. Once redundancy landed, I picked up a pencil and started learning some new skills. I work in pencil, mostly, although I'm doing the odd picture in soft pastels and thinking about trying out acrylics.
Shameless plugs - things to listen to:
Alan Green - Classical Guitar
Essential Sounds Big Band
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Here goes give it a try.
Derek, once known as Snowy to his school friends in Darlo (Darlingtin Co Durham) and left at 15 yrs young in 1955. Straight into a job as apprentice draughstman in a firm that built quarry machinery.
Since then been designer. salesman, manager, MD of own company, went bust and was in Mid East for 6 years and got the house back from Barclays Bank - *a*t*r*s.
Got into art club and rose? through member, committee member, Chairman and finally President. Left them.
Joined another club now again on committee, can't keep mouth shut!
Wife one hell of a cook, loves gardening. We have Eriba caravan and didn't enter Caravanner of the Year tripe, but good giggle.
Son and daughter, 3 anklebiters, one fem, 2 male. Two of them good at art the other one badly autisticbut talented we are sure which will surface.
Many friends and rellies dead and gone but still wide group of freinds of all ages.
Much travelled world and UK wide, business and pleasure.
Eclectic art and music taste
You can see and read the rest elswhere in POL
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