AN artist pays tribute to her former art teacher for being her inspiration and success as she eagerly awaits to see her painting hung up in a gallery in London.
Carol Davison, from Allendale who has been painting for fourteen years and has a studio in Allen Mill, was thrilled to learn that her painting of a friend, was selected by the London Art Biennale to be exhibited in The Historic Old Hall on the Kings Road in Chelsea.
Something she wouldn't have done if it weren't for her former teacher, Prudhoe artist Paul Stangroom.
"I began painting with a friend at the Hexham Campus, they ran a free course so I thought I would give it a go," Carol explains.
"My art tutor was the late Paul Stangroom and I couldn't have had a better and more supportive teacher.
"With Paul's patience and guidance I have this wonderful on going interest in progressing with my art, so many thanks to Paul.
"The painting that has been selected for London is called 'I'm Willing to hear your version' and it is possibilly my favourite work.
"It is of my lovely supportive fiesty friend the late Anne Pickering, a Hexham Lady who gave me permission to paint her portrait so long as I placed a weapon in her hands.
"After much deliberation it was decided she would hold her late father's hunting whip. "Many people will remember her father Jock Pickering.
"As I was brought up on a dairy farm Jock was our trusted Veterinary.
"Who would have thought one day I would meet Anne his daughter and be privileged to paint her portrait and then have it hanging in in a prestigious exhibition in Chelsea."
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