I've been painting and writing too for almost as long as I can remember, but blogging is new to me and a bit scary. Unsure of what to write, but have decided to say a bit about myself and my paintings, which are on silk, and my intention to run a colour mixing course via this blog.
The daughter of Essex artist Louis Stanford, I began scrounging my father’s oils from the age of four, but after beginning a career in art, deserted it in favour of languages for a number of years. I have always been drawn to vivid colour and on returning to art, I discovered painting on habotai silk, immediately falling in love with the rich dyes and paints as well as the lustrous fabric. Apart from commissioned work, I tend to paint whatever takes my fancy, from serious landscape and flowers to quirky animals and mythical beasts, fixing the colours by steaming and/or ironing. Each piece is treated individually, sometimes dyeing the white silk first, followed by over-dyeing, painting, gilding, even using beads and sequins on occasion. I prefer to back my hangings, tab them and hang on rods or wires, rather than framing the silks, keeping costs down for everyone, a factor that has enabled my paintings, hangings and scarves, to be sent all over the world. I am going to use my blog to help other people come to enjoy painting. I think the problems we all encounter have to do with colour, so my future plan is to introduce a colour mixing course and I hope you will enjoy reading and maybe learning something it's taken me years to find out about how colour works.
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