Pennie Cunliffe-Lister AOI (Association of illustrators)
I was born in Staffordshire, April 16th 1953, in RAF Cosford to an Army family.
I lived abroad as a child and travelled a great deal. I was educated at Westmount School, in Montreal and Northwood College in London.
I have always loved painting and drawing and have loved cartooning since a very early age.
I studied Landscape Architecture at Thames Polytechnic in Ravenscourt Park, Hammersmith, London in the 1970s. I have worked at the Tate Gallery before it became Tate Britain, for the Keeper of Exhibitions: for the Reader in Architecture at The Bartlet, University College, London: Cassels and Studio Vista where I was a free lance Picture Researcher and was the founder of the Photo Library at Country Life Magazine.
I am a member of the Association of Illustrators, AOI.
I live in Eastbourne where I have a wonderful spacious art studio and have taken part in many exhibitions as well as holding my own in the studio.
I have painted for large corporations and hospitals, private individuals, Royalty and the not so Royal, the famous and the not so famous.
pennie@penniecunliffe-lister.com
The greatest compliment anyone can pay me as an artist is when they buy a painting that I have created and then hang it in their own personal space and live with it.
I paint moments in time that appeal to me – quirky subjects - such as an enormous glass jar of vibrant red strawberry sweets or a beaming French lady cooking crepe for me at the Fair in Dieppe: the effervescent musicians of the steel band at Shirley Heights in Antigua.
I use many different media to convey my chosen subject – oil, acrylic, water colour, inks, crayon and pastel. I use whatever I think will most effectively describe my theme.
My work has developed and evolved unintentionally over time from all manner of different subjects that have caught my imagination. I don’t find it easy to explain my work because I feel when I paint a picture then hopefully it speaks for itself and is whatever the viewer wishes to take from it. There is no right or wrong message. Everybody takes something a little different from my work and that makes me content
My Studio:
The Studio,
Unit 7 60a Ashford Square,
Eastbourne,
BN21 3TX
Phone: 07703 452 554
Email: pennie@penniecunliffe-lister.com
Website: www.penniecunliffe-lister.com
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