SHIRLEY MAY

                                                           
                                                            PLEIN AIR PAINTING

               FREE EXPRESSIVE MARK-MAKING AND COLOUR CHOICES

 

          I love Plein air landscape painting, using acrylics or gouache, with freedom in mark-making and colour.

            Always trying to use the paint in a different way.

 

          Currently exhibiting in Worthing Museum and Art Gallery until June 2nd 2024 with Society of Sussex

          Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers (SSP) at their Centenary Exhibition. A lovely varied show worth seeing.

                                            

 


                   "Woodingdean Sunset" (50 cm x 20cm, unframed, started en Plein air and finished in studio, £350)

                    Painted from an oil pastel sketch on the spot. Selected for exhibition in

                               The Artist and Leisure Painter (TALP) 2023 Patching's exhibition.

 


 

                 "Mill Hill Sunset" (40 cm x 30cm unframed, £200)

 

 


              "Devil's Dyke Woods" (Plein air painting 60 x 40cms, acrylics on canvas, £250 unframed.)

                    

 

 


                          "Parham Park deer" (20 x 50 cms; acrylics on canvas). £200

                            

 

 


                                    "Woodingdean sunset" (acrylic on canvas, 30 x 22.5 cms, framed £200)

                              


                        "Mill Hill from the east side" Acrylic on acrylic paper, 35.5 x 26.5 cms, £150

 

 


                                            "Sun in my Garden"  (acrylics on paper, 40 x 27.5 cms) £200

                                             Painted en Plein air.

 


                                                     Winner of The Society for All Artists Award 2021.

 

 

I have taught a small watercolour class in my house most weeks between 2011 and 2018.

I love to help people with their art, and share my enthusiasm for painting.

There is so much fun to be had.

I have exhibited in Fiveways Artists Open Houses in the 1990's, had exhibitions in Lancing Library, Michelham Priory, Oxmarket Centre (Chichester), been published in "An Introduction to Painting Flowers" by Elisabeth Harden (The Apple Press 1994 ISBN 1-85076-536-7) and cover/inside illustration for "Coffee Wisdom" by Theresa Cheung (Conari Press 2003 ISBN 1-57324-865-7). I have completed various private commissions, and paint and sketch regularly most days. I have Certificates in Art and Printmaking from the University of Brighton, and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Sussex.

 

I am also a retired freelance writer of scientific and medical book indexes since 1994.

(Advanced Member of the Society of Indexers; BSc(Hons) Biological Sciences; PGCE)

 


Winner of Caran D'Ache Award

The Artist and Leisure Painter Patchings Exhibition 2020

 

Highly Commended Award in The Artist and Leisure Painter 2022 Awards

    

   

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