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Lucy Swinburne - Painter (Welwyn Garden City)

Contact Lucy Swinburne

Phone: 01707 322735
email: lucy@ls-pastelartist.co.uk

Artist's statement:
I formally trained as a Graphic Designer in 1988 but spent the following 10 enjoyable years working as a print estimator and account executive.

Since 2001 I have been successfully completing commissions for clients and demonstrating and exhibiting at craft shows in the UK.

I was selected as a finalist from 10,000 entries in the Daily Mail's first 'Not the Turner Prize' competition and subsequently exhibited at the Mall Galleries.

In 2006 I was exhibited at the Society of Feline Artists annual exhibition in London, been commissioned to paint captive wolves and to write an article for Leisure Painter magazine.

Commissions:
Regular commission completed of people and pets.

Exhibitions:
* Society of Feline Artists 2006 (annual exhibition);
* Ayot Summer Exhibition 2005;
* Mall Galleries 2004;
* Paws 'Paint a Wildlife subject' 2004.

Qualifications:
* BTEC National Diploma in Graphic Design.

Publications:
Step by Step Cat Portrait article due to be published in the Leisure Painter this year (2007).

Teaches adults, individual or group tuition;
Workshops for adults, beginners and amateurs in Welwyn Garden City.

Art forms used: graphite pencil, pastels, pastel pencils and coloured pencils.