Caron Higgins

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I have always drawn and painted. My Grandfather painted, my father paints and my daughter paints, it is in our genes. My grandfather taught me to observe and understand my subjects.

Most of my working life has been in technical and architectural design. For the last 20 years this has been theatre/stage set design and set painting, heavily dependant on perspective and its manipulation.

Different subjects challenge me for a different response of style and media and setting no limits makes art an endless adventure. Recently, I have been using pastels which suit my way of working particularly on animals. You should know and understand your subject to do it justice and I have spent a lifetime around horses and other animals.

However, anything can distract and challenge me to capture or interpret it by any means and a love of architecture often results in me playing with the possibilities sometimes in minutely detailed pen and ink.