Sue Lewington

My last entry about going out and painting with water colours reminded me of learning to paint with watercolours when I was a teenager. I had like most kids been painting with cheap water colours and powder-paints since I was small but on a family holiday to the island of St. Martins in the Isles of Scilly when I was about 14 (so that would be 1993 /94), my parents discovered a talented water colour artist on the island who was running her own gallery and decided to pay for me to have a lesson with her. Although, in actuality this then resulted in me spending most of the rest of the holiday painting in watercolours and calling back to the poor lady’s studio on a number of occasions to show her my efforts. I have just found that this artist is still painting, her name is Sue Lewington. She does not have much of a formal web presence, but rather exists online by reputation (there are pages and pages of people commenting on her work and courses). I would like to say thank you to her for teaching me to paint all those years ago (I was much improved on my return from the Scilly’s); although I think I might need to go back for some more lessons now.