Exeter Craft Show

Exeter Craft Show
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A great start. How well I recognise the expressions on the women's faces! So what is your main aim going to be Jill?

Great stuff Jill full of life and energy

Ha ha, thank you for the comments. I went to Exeter Craft show with a friend, some ladies had travelled all the way from Penzance in the incipient snow! I had to paint the people I had seen they made a great impression on me all being utterly devoted to their crafts; in some ways I envied their enthusiasm. I have also painted naked ladies cavorting with abandon in our local swimming pool changing room....they are now in a private collection. My stimulus has been the enthusiasms and joy of others, my aim is to look for more expressions of these emotions. I will get out and about with my sketchbook this summer x

Hang on Studio Wall
30/06/2017
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I was fooling around with Beryl Cookesque figures, trying to portray the passions of these wonderful 'crafting' women.

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Jill Elliot

College trained artist. Teaching took me in into other subjects to teach including computer science! Left working as an artist behind, but I am trying to develop my skills now I have retired and I am enjoying it. You will see from my work that I go in various directions. I have sold a fair few…

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