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I love to paint en Plein Air using acrylic paints on canvas board or large canvas. I exhibit my work in Worthing West End Gallery, 87, Rowlands Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 3JX.
Tel: 07828 400125. David Bryant and Roger Foxwell.
You can follow me on Instagram @shirleymayartist where I post regularly.
My work is slightly abstract. Colour and shapes, marks, composition are what float my boat. Landscape almost entirely, painted on the spot, or from sketches, and developed in my studio.
I have a wonderful framer Ed Watts, whose low key frames I love.
@edwattsframing, 29, Twitter Way, Worthing, BN14 7JU.
Lifetime artist, painter and printmaker.
Studies at Brighton University, Open College of the Arts, Sussex University.
Member of Brighton Painting Group, and Worthing Painting Group.
Landscape Artist of the Year 2025 Wild Card invited entrant.
Previously Secretary of Society of Sussex Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers (SSP).
Hoping to develop further my acrylic painting en Plein air, and enjoy working in my new studio.
Currently exhibiting at Worthing West End Gallery (87, Rowlands Rd, Worthing, BN11 3JX)
and Jules Emporium (5, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1UF).
"Goring Beach Swimmers" (Plein air painting 60 x 40cms, acrylics on canvas, £150 unframed.
Will be available through Worthing West End Gallery. Tel: 07828 400125.
Painted 6.11.26)
"Sunset Goring" (acrylic on canvas board, framed, Plein air painting, 42 x 34cms) £150.
"Shoreham" (acrylics on canvas board, framed, Plein air painting 32
x 27cm) £130
"Sun in my Garden" (acrylics on paper, 40 x 27.5 cms) £100
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.
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 a member of Worthing Painting Group (WPG) and Brighton Painting Group (BPG).
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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