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Tom Henderson Smith	The style or approach to painting that Tom uses is one based on a sense of design that was confirmed for him by two formative years spent in Italy after graduating from Art College in the 1970s. At the same time a sensuous enjoyment of colour is important to him, stemming as it from a childhood spent partly in the tropics when his family lived in Africa. Cornwall has brought together these personal tastes of his through its landscape, culture and over-arching quality of maritime light. Born in Yorkshire his early education was in Huddersfield. He gained an honours degree in Fine Art at Newcastle-upon-Tyne University and on graduating in 1971 was awarded a Bunzl travel scholarship to study in Italy. He returned to the U.K. in 1973 and lived for seven years in Bath, training as a teacher at Bristol University. He taught Art in Bath, London and Cornwall from 1976 to 1999 and was head of Art at Mounts Bay School, Penzance from 1982 to 1999. He was elected to membership of the National Acrylic Painters Association in January 2007. He's been a practicing Buddhist since 1983.

Sarah Vivian	Sarah studied Education, Art, and Craft, and followed the craft avenue professionally. She set up a business in 1977 as a craft weaver, and later had her own gallery in Dawlish. Despite always wanting to paint, Sarah has only been able to paint full time for her income for the last seven years. 7th April 1953......Birth. Lived in Bath, where her father was a well-known Georgian restoration architect. Wanted to be an artist as a teenager, but instead succumbed to pressure to train for “a decent career”! Sarah is displaying a range of prints and cards with us at very reasonable prices, see them on our online gallery.