About the Artist

Having successfully completed an Art Foundation course at Harlow in 1984. I went on to study City & Guilds Horticulture at Oakland's College, St Albans. Followed by a Horticulture Degree at Writtle College, Chelmsford in 1996.
In 2002 I got married and now live with my husband and cats in a small thatched cottage in rural Cambridgeshire.

Although I have always enjoyed painting, I have only come out as a serious painter in the last few years, while recovering from M.E.
I have had help and encouragement from Business for People an enterprise agency that specialised in assisting disadvantaged artists, with relevant I.T. training and business funding advice.
Business for People helped me to apply for an Arts Council grant. This has paid for computer equipment, essential for designing the greeting cards from my paintings.

About my Paintings, by Andrea Weeding B.Sc. Hons.

My work is born out of a desire to express how beautiful this everyday world that we live in is.

I paint with a wide variety of mediums, constantly trying new ideas.
It is the quality of light and shadow on a subject that inspires me to paint.
Of course, light affects perceived colour, and so I revel in bright and rich colour schemes, and do my best to interpret them as an artist.

Empathy plays a big part in my choice of painting composition and subject.
Having had a long association with horticulture and garden design I enjoy painting gardens and plants.
I tend to include cats in my compositions because they have always been a part of my life. We share an understanding, they pose (sleep) - I feed them!
I find humour in a lot of things and try also to inject that (if subtly) into my work.

My work, like my subject matter, is constantly evolving. Change, it seems, is a reliable and constant source of inspiration.