vickymount
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I started drawing with a biro forty years ago on my mothers’ kitchen walls and in her cookery books. So Mum introduced me to paper, felt tipped pens, coloured pencils and poster paints. Eventually, at the age of twelve, Mum allowed me to paint a mural on our bathroom wall. It was a copy from a seaside postcard of a large lady in a bathing costume dancing along a beach. Looking back as a shy child, drawing and painting has always been a wonderful way to be able to express myself.
Later I studied illustration at Telford College here in Edinburgh and gained a Higher Diploma which led me on to study Graphic Design/illustration at Leeds Metropolitan University. After gaining a BA Hon’s degree I worked for a number of years as a graphic designer and illustrator in Leeds before returning to my native Edinburgh. Here, I had my two daughters and continued to paint and work part-time. Eventually I returned to painting full-time on walls as a mural artist.
At present I work night shift but paint avidly every day.
Groups
vickymount is a member of * Painted Ladies *, All Things Orange Artwork Gallery, The Fruit and Veg Shop(2 uploads a Day), * Painted Nature *, A Class of Its Own, Acrylic Painting, All About Water, All things Egyptian, Animal Fantasy & Whimsy, Animal Portraits, Anything Edinburgh, Art and Stories Made For Children, Beach Art, Birds and Creatures of Flight, Black Cats( 2 uploads a day), British Painters, Cats and Dogs (1 artwork per day), Childhood, Cityscapes and City Skylines ~ ALL THINGS "CITY" , Coloured Pencil Art, Days Gone By (Photographs must be twenty years or older and include people please), Domestic and Pedigree Cats, Elderly , Everything Winter, Fabulous Flowers, FEATURED ONLY, Feel, Don't Copy, Fine Arts, Finks of Inks, For the Love of Cats , 1 image a day , Funny Kritters, Going Coastal (2 art per day), Green!, Hand painted or drawn Buildings and architecture, History, Humorous Illustrations ( NO PHOTOGRAPHY ) , Humour Captured, Industrial landscapes, Just Brown, LMAO ART - Your funniest work, Mature Woman, Moody, Dark, Evocative (no nudes), Oil Painting, Our K9 Friend 1 image a day (Dogs only), Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Painted Animals! , Painted Birds! , Painters In Modern Times, Paws n Claws <3 per day><Domestic cats & dogs only>, Pets and People, Self Portrait, Simply White Artwork Gallery - 95% White !, Snow! Glorious Snow!! 2 a day, Solo Exhibition, Something Fishy, Streetscapes, The Artistic Nude, The Best of, The Scots are Coming, The Urban Environment, United Kingdom, Urban Wildlife, Vibrant and Vivid Color, West Midlands UK, Wildlife and Pet Paintings and Yorkshire Grit.
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vicstan
I just wanted to highlight Victoria Stanways work as she has just joined Redbubble. I hope you like her work as much as I do! / Thanks / 8~) vicky
