Je ne regrette rien........except not taking on this challenge about 30 years ago before my eyesight started to fail and my hand to shake. I have yearned to paint for all of my life, and yet always come up with a plethora of excuses to prevent me putting brush to canvas. Not any more. Thanks to the generosity of my brother and sister-in-law, I took myself off for a day of botanical painting under the tutelage of the extremely talented Siriol Sherlock and in the company of my lovely friend Ann. We were the novices of the group - Ann didn't know one end of a paintbrush from the other, and I didn't know a daisy from a dandelion! What we lacked in experience, expertise, skill, talent, we more than made up for in enthusiasm, perseverence and good humour! Siriol made it look so easy - it wasn't! With a few flourishes and flicks of the wrist, she created a masterpiece, and we produced something that wouldn't look out of place on the wall of my Year 1 classroom. After six hours we headed home with a portfolio of paintings, inspiration and pride.
I'm off now to my garret, dressed in a smock, in search of creative genius. It's never too late - non, je ne regrette rien!
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