Always nice to meet a fellow artist. What style do you paint in? I paint in the realisitc style. Mainly animals, birds and flowers. but I do paint some portraits, landscapes and still life.

I paint all winter and garden and collect photos for painting in the summer. I paint at home and at my friends' studio, with a group of artists I met when I first started painting many years ago. We meet once a week and give friendly critiques of each others paintings and we spend the day painting and catching up on each others lives.

Gardening makes a nice change and keeps things fresh when you go back to painting. Somehow I think they go hand in hand, only with gardening you are painting with flowers.