Elizabeth Sinclair

 

After taking a degree in Modern Languages at Durham University, followed by a Diploma in Education, I taught French and German for thirty years both here in County Down and in Lancashire. 

 

I have had no formal training in art.  My interest began when I saw a GCSE display of one of my own pupils at school.  The art teacher encouraged me to take a watercolour class.  This was in 1989.  From there I moved on to oils and then to pastels, my favourite painting medium.

 

One miserable January day I received a brochure for a painting holiday in Spain.  The cover painting was by Lionel Aggett, famous for his colourful scenes of France and Spain and much admired by me for years.  He was to be a tutor on the course.  I was hooked.  I have been painting in Spain, Mallorca and France several times.  It is a wonderful experience to sit in an olive grove or in a shaded Moorish courtyard, painting whilst bees buzz, fountains play and birds sing, the air warm and heady with flowery fragrances.

 

Over the years I have painted any and everything.  Subjects “speak” to me or else I choose not to paint them.  That is the beauty of painting for me.   My motto is “You do not know what you can do until you try”

 

Connemara

Eager to go

Letterfrack

 

Cunningham White

Tara

Giant Poppy

Wolf Cub

Raising the Dust

Carmargue Horses

Ascot

Autumn Fire, Ashridge

Bambou

Bunty

Carnival Ball

Clematis, Dr Ruppel

Flamenco Guitarist

In pensive mood

Mid Island Greyabbey

Olive grove with poppies

On the beach

Rhododendron Manon

Seamus

Sedge

Shades of Autumn

Spurn Head

Strangford wreck

Sylvan shadows

Pointers Flushing Pheasant

Ballintoy Coast

Barr's Bay

Pauline's Peony Rose

After the rains - Painshill Surrey

After the rains 2 - Painshill Surrey