I originally trained as nurse, both adults and children at Westminster Hospital. After staffing at the children’s hospital and getting married, I did my post grad. in Health Visting, working in the community in SE London. After the birth of my son I had a part time job at the local college, teaching family care on a C & G course, & got my F.Ed Teaching Cert. After 4 years teaching & an distance learning interior design course and my 2nd child,  I went full time into my own kitchen design business in anwer to my creative needs & entrepreneurial spirit. Recession and divorce eventually moved me away from design and back to the beginnings of domiciliary care and health training for several years. A new life partner and business partner, loss of parents & grown children brought us from the SE to the SW where have now been for 25 years plus. When my business partner remarried there was an opportunity to buy the local Estate Agency and a happy 18 years followed with a great team of women. I qualified as a Life coach and Nlp practitioner along the way, useful skills for helping people through major changes. Now retired from my agency work, l have some part time consulting work and finally the time to paint more but would like to be able to combine my people & art skills to benefit others,