Shirley Trevena is extremely well known - internationally - as a
watercolour painter. This is a video about Shirley talking about how she became a painter and her approach to making art in watercolour.
Shirley is also:
- a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. She was elected inn 1994 and served as a committee member for 8 years.
- an ex-local government officer who worked in Planning (I never knew that before!)
- who used to be "just a holiday painter" - who started painting in watercolour while on holiday in Cornwall
- resigned her planning job nearly 30 years ago to become a professional full time artist
- Draws using the same pen as me (yay for the Pilot G-TEC-C4)
- credits the film "A Bigger Splash" - about David Hockney - as providing inspiration for her and proved that there were no rules
- started painting floral paintings - for which she is perhaps best known
Flowers by Shirley Trevena |
- now she focuses more on still life - but also paints other subjects
- Comments in the video about
- how she uses her iPad to help her make decisions about the development of her painting
- her approach to drawing and painting and
- how she breaks rules, alters perspective and features patterns....
She written three art instruction books about her approach to painting in watercolour
- Breaking the Rules of Watercolour (2012)
- Vibrant Watercolours (2006)
- Taking Risks with Watercolour (2004)
She has also made several instructional DVDs.
If you want to pep up your watercolours, I suggest you take a look!
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