Watercolor Paintings and Prints

Well,I actually trained as a teacher and taught 6 & 7 yr olds for 9 years. I gave up that job when my son was born and he is 26 now! While he was still a baby I started going to a painting class one afternoon a week although I have always painted and drawn and this went on for 3years or so until the lady who was teaching us retired and I was asked to take over the class!
That left me without a painting class to go to and so I enrolled for an evening class in the next town. That lasted a year and then one evening the teacher didn't show up and said he wasn't coming in any more. Guess who got the job??
While all this was happening my mother in law encouraged me to start exhibiting. Daunting at first --but one thing led to another and now I have had 6 of my own shows and have paintings in a number of galleries (real and virtual!).
Then a few years ago a small local firm approached me to do cards and prints with
them and that has been fantastic. I still get a buzz from seeing the cards on sale in shops.
I paint nearly every day and now run painting classes privately for about 70 adult students which is really rewarding and good for me too because it means I get out and meet people. Otherwise I think it would be a pretty solitary existence.....just me and Radio 4!

As I said flowers are a favourite subject....here is another example

I really enjoy painting white flowers and I think the dark almost abstract background is a good way to set them off.
Do you agree?

I was really pleased with the blue greens against the pink

This was a two week project working from life.The leaves, with their intricate pattern, take more painting than the flowers!