Sue Ford: Watercolours, Pastels & Acrylics: 3rd - 6th June 2010

Beckside Moorings by Sue FordWe 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.