by heather | Jul 21, 2015 | Blog
I don’t normally read the Sports pages of the Portsmouth Evening News, however, a photo of a young girl holding up a number of gold medals for swimming attracted my attention.. The article told of the achievements of 13 year old Nicole Mackenzie, after she had a...
by heather | Jul 20, 2015 | Blog
My Tactile Portrait collection was beginning to build up and I found my next sitter right on my doorstep in Emsworth. I read in the Portsmouth Evening News about Mark Covell. The Technical Advisor involved in the building of a yacht called THE BOAT PROJECT. ...
by heather | Jul 15, 2015 | Blog
I read an article in the Portsmouth Evening News about a young man called Mark Ormrod. He had written a book called Man Down, received an award for it at the Royal Marine Barracks in Portsmouth. What was so amazing that all this took place after he became the first...
by heather | Jul 14, 2015 | Blog
My search to find new people to include in my tactile portrait collection took nearly two years. One evening I watched a programme called The Spitfire sisters. It told the story of the women who flew all sorts of aircraft during the war from factory to the Air Force...
by heather | Jul 12, 2015 | Blog
I had completed two paintings for my new Portrait Collection. I AM NOT WHO YOU THINK I AM and MARTIN DOREY. Twelve more to go. One evening I watched the programme Beauty and the Beast. It featured two women. One obsessed with her own beauty, who proudly told the...
