Sue Ford: Watercolours, Pastels & Acrylics: 3rd - 6th June 2010
We
are thrilled to welcome back Sue Ford to Staithes Art School. She was our
first and original tutor and is highly regarded nationwide for the energy,
patience and insight she shows in her teaching. She is a regular tutor for
Cunard cruise liners and has travelled on both Queen Mary II and Queen Victoria
to New York and Copenhagen. She has also taken numerous painting holidays
to Balmoral Castle in Scotland and to Sardinia.
Her love and interest in drawing and painting began in early childhood and
developed further at Middlesbrough College of Art. In her early career as
an artist she was declared the North East winner for portraiture in a national
TV programme 'Painting along with Nancy Kominsky'. Recently Sue has published
articles on painting in the Leisure Painter and Paint Magazine.
Exhibitions include: Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Society of Women Artists at the Mall Galleries, London; The Westminster Gallery, Central Hall, London;The RNLI; Art Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Hornsey Gallery, Ripon; the Phoenix Gallery, Richmond; Washington Wildlife Park; Danby Moors Centre.