I am an experienced artist and tutor, with a life-long love of painting and drawing and a passion for nurturing those skills in others. I derive immense pleasure from helping others to discover the endless joys (and occasional frustrations) of painting, and to progress, whether they taking their first tentative steps or are seeking to develop their technique and style.
As a tutor my goal is to do so much more than demonstrate and pass on my knowledge. I regard it as my role to understand my students aims, and fears, to help them to achieve the former and to lose the latter, to encourage, and to make it fun. I get unbelievably excited and proud when I see students blossoming.
My students tell me that my patience is endless and that my enthusiasm is infectious. Perhaps that is because I genuinely believe that anyone can learn to paint, it just takes the desire, tuition and plenty of persistence, and the knowledge that art is so very good for the soul.

Joanne Boon Thomas
Watercolour Artist & Tutor