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Carole Collier: Ever wanted to secede from everyday rigmarole? Perhaps your children need to fidget with something more challenging and rewarding as they grow up and discover the explosive talents that define them? You long to try your hand at creating memorable little arts and crafts yourself, don't you. You might be an adult but the infant of yore beckons you to recreate the past with a somewhat futuristic artistic accent!
A youngster or a mature person who never left their youth behind, you are more than welcome to join me for a mutually rewarding experience that is the microcosm of Arts and Crafts.

I am also a seasoned Assignment Artist, therefore, if you require any paintings or crafts for private or business use I am prepared to give your request its due consideration.

Please contact me on 07828539392 or e-mail:

carolecollier2@googlemail.com
cal_lich@yahoo.co.uk
cal_lich@3mail.com

should you express an interest in either Arts and Crafts tuition or commissioning me for a painting or a number of paintings that would brighten up your personal or office space.

I have also accumulated invaluable experience as a Heraldic Artist which has solidified my appreciation for Art in its many versatile guises.

Please feel free to browse my web-page at http://www.myspace.com/carolecollier_lichfield
as well as my online community entitled 'For Art And The Warmth From Within' at http://carolecollier61artist.ning.com/ Registration for 'For Art And The Warmth From Within' is free!

ART RESTS PEACEFULLY IN THE HEART AND MIND... VISION EMANATES FROM THE TEMPESTUOUS LAKES OF AN ARTISTIC SOUL!

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I am an ardent decorated artist who paints, sculpts and offers tuition in the Arts and Crafts field to both children and adults. I am a proud member of the Lichfield Society Of Artists - an organisation whose executive committee have proposed that I take on the mantle of their very own Press Officer.I am also capable of writing reviews concerning Art and Culture. I have augmented my knowledge and intimate understanding of the latter during my career as a Museum Attendant at the majestic Dr. Johnson's Birthplace Museum http://www.lichfield.gov.uk/sjmuseum/ . I undertook to run various Arts and Crafts workshops for young children in Lichfield during the summer as well as the October Half Term of 2007 - a wonderful initiative resulting from the collective vision of the hardworking and resourceful management and staff of the Dr. Johnson's Birthplace Museum in the Historic Cathedral City Centre http://www.lichfield.gov.uk/sjmuseum/pdf/event.pdf . That was undoubtedly a great honour for me and my sincere endeavours were tremendously rewarded as I gradually discovered that passing on my knowledge and skills to enthusiastic and impressionable young children was a humbling experience that solidified mutual self-actualisation. I shall be forever indebted to the Museum as well as these precious budding young artists for the sense of purpose that they re-ignited in that special corner of my soul that cultivates creativity to the core. I am delighted to reveal that the Arts and Crafts workshop programme returns for February Half-Term 2008 http://www.lichfield.gov.uk/sjmuseum/events.asp .

I am a seasoned assignment artist as well having worked on a variety of commissions for both private and business clients throughout my adult life. My work has been recognised by important organisations such as the Lichfield Society Of Artists. I received a Commendation from them for my painting entitled 'Best Friend' http://www.lichfieldsocietyofartists.co.uk/exhibitions.html and I recently received another award for one of my sketches. I used to run a successful Arts and Crafts stall on a narrow boat which used to be my home and inspiration back in the eighties. I used to attract a versatile and exciting clientele when my boat was moored in the heart-warming surroundings of Bletchley where many American and Japanese tourists and business people took interest and purchased my work of inner love. I was asked to make a brief appearance on Regional Television at that time because of the interest that my Arts and Crafts generated from the very magic comfort of my beloved narrow boat. Although I have expended an enviable deal of energy as a portraitist I am also capable of breathing life into as well as intensifying the heartbeat of a landscape painting to the point of immersing myself into the 'poignant pretty little life' my brushstrokes happen to create. My ideas on children's crafts have allowed me to channel my creativity into an altogether different dimension. The constant need to improvise as youngsters tend to cascade the gears of the mind ever so tirelessly, so to speak, has rekindled my childhood's zeal that initially forced me to take up Art. I am incredibly partial to the Japanese art of origami. The Summer of 2007 workshops became an overnight hit with the youth brigade as I somehow incorporated an origami theme into the programme that was meant to focus on Dr. Samuel Johnson. It is this type of lateral thinking on my part that I feel resonates well with those who I teach, be they young or not too young. I have also accumulated a vast experience as a Heraldic Artist. The activities associated therewith have strengthened my resolve as an artist and they have been indisputably gratifying.

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THE LICHFIELD SOCIETY OF ARTISTS

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The fascinatingly elegant Cathedral City of Lichfield beckons artists to expand their horizons beyond their expectations. Joining the Lichfield Society Of Artists (LSA) provides one with a tremendous opportunity to interact with local artistically-minded people.

I long to see more space allocation for local artists to exhibit their works of inner and outer love. To let it be framed in the ocular wishing wells of curious onlookers!

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ARTICRICITY

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Art rests peacefully in the heart and mind... Vision emanates from the tempestuous lakes of an artistic soul!

'Articricity' is the driving force of our commitment to the human race to challenge its collective and belligerently individual inner scope alike to give in to spiritual intoxication so colossally incomprehensible that it opens the creative floodgates of an undying mind's eye!

Blesed be those who hold 'articricity' dear deep within their human edifice! Artistic Electricity is the drug we all long for when the chips are down and the countryside's pathways seem bleak with overwhelming worry!

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NOTHING MORE ABSORBING THAN WATCHING OTHERS INSPIRE OUR WORLD

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As I gather all the strength and motivation that resides with me day in and day out and the advent of the exhilarating Arts and Crafts Workshops at Dr. Johnson's Birthplace becomes ever so imminent [February 13th & 15th 2008, to be precise], I cannot help but be overcome with an almost melodious sense of emotion when I visualise the good-natured, wonderful and enthusiastic children that would storm through the magical museum's doors with the intention of seeking deep inspiration from me and the ambience of this Lichfieldian landmark that I so adore.

The fact of the matter is that it is I who has been thoroughly absorbed by their talents during the past workshops that have been conducted at this cultural centre. It is I whose inspirational creative fountain has been more than invigorated by the scintillating outpouring of vision that these fantastic young people present ever so poignantly to us, creatures of polished adulthood. Raw talent inspires me beyond the realms of possibilities and for that I am profoundly grateful!

When I gaze at others who inspire our world to become a better place I surrender to my artistic sense of fulfilment that no paint or any other life-enhancing weapon of art can fully depict. The children who have so far frequented our workshops' programme have never ceased to make me strive to be a better, more discerning person!

I sincerely hope my love for Art and the inspirational waterfalls that have swooshed therefrom would be half as incredible for the beautiful green but far from trivial minds as everything that their collective inner selves have taught me so far.  

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