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Suzy Fasht
Suzy  achieved a BA(Hons) in Fine Art the undertook a three year post graduate  training at the Royal Academy School where she gained a PG Painting Diploma.  Her interest in Art Therapy took her to Goldsmiths College and more recently she has been training to teach adults. Her work has been regularly exhibited and she has gained many awards, including a prize in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.  She was artist in residence at The London Business School and among her commissions are listed Chevron UK  -  watercolours of the Hebrides and the Laura Ashley Foundation for her landscape work, her work can be seen in hospital collections and private collections.

Mary Gillett
Mary studied fine art at Bristol Polytechnic, completed an ATC course and specialised in printmaking on the postgraduate diploma course at Brighton Polytechnic. Twenty years ago she returned to Devon where she spent her childhood.
Mary specialises in etching but I also enable students to work with other print forms such as relief, monoprint, collagraph, mixed media and combined techniques. The courses are aimed at beginners, amateurs and professionals - alll with an appetite for hard work! There is room for exploration and experimentation. Tuition is non-prescriptive with emphasis on guidance within the context of each individual's needs, abilities and ideas. Lively discussion and feedback generated by the informal atmosphere are integral to the course content. Participants always depart with a body of challenging ideas and new experience on which to build.

Chris Molan
Chris trained as a graphic artist  in the 60’s and  then as an illustrator at the University of the West of England.  She works from her studio in Bristol.  Her illustration career has drawn on an obsession with West Country landscapes and coastal seascapes.   She would often escape from the pressure of deadlines to make open air studies of bracken and cloud effects on the Mendip Hills.  She prefers working in the open , as it brings to her pictures a real sense of being there – the sound, the smells and the textures. Early influences have a family connection.  It was William Widgery, a famous 19th century watercolour artist – he was the first artist she ever heard about.  Her father was a Widgery and his father came from South Molton in Devon, close to William’s birthplace.  The idea of a possible family connection was thrilling as a child.  Her uncle gave her his old watercolour box, this started a passion with paint and the outside world that has gone from strength to strength.

Nicky Walker
Nicky studied at Falmouth College of Art, taught by Ray Atkins and Andrew Stonyer.  Her work is in private collections around the globe.  Whether working on a portrait or a landscape she uses her energy to search for the essence to make that intimate record of place or person.  With her materials she adds and removes marks on the canvas using spontaneous gestures.  Sometimes she incorporates natural, found  and building materials to evoke the sense of time, history and struggle – another side of beautiful Cornwall.  The texture and earthiness contrast with the black and white monochromes and coloured pastels and oils, this epitomises the changing seasons of the landscape.

Nicky Walker – From Monochrome to Veridian – 2 days