I entered Mum's "Folk art world" at the age of thirteen. Always eager to join her students in the studio where mum introduced me to the "comma stroke".
Realizing now that I am a perfectionist needed to spend many hours practicing the stroke till I was satisfied to move on. Hence pages upon pages of commas appeared.
Mum does everything with a confident casual speed and now as a partner in the business I am learning fast to keep up with her.
Do I paint Roses, of course, but I still have my stroke work and commas. I enjoy being creative with Decor and have concentrated my style around decorating my room/house etc. With Mum's influence I look forward to developing a new style with plenty of Roses to follow and perhaps sharing it one day with all of you.
I started teaching both in our  shop and travel teaching to the country areas. 
That I think increased my appetite for travels and decided to leave folk art on the back burner for awhile and take off touring the world.
5 years later and still trying to fight the travel bug I decided the best option would be to merge the two! I now travel nationally and internationally with mum teaching all over the world to many places I'd never been. Invitations to teach away come in all the time, so see you wherever you are one day!
Keep Painting,

Alison