Eileen Brookes
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Eileen trained as a primary school art teacher in London at Philippa Fawcett College of Education and Camberwell School of Art, where she studied graphic design and printmaking. She taught in London and Leicester. In 1997 she took early retirement to restart her personal Art Education.
Eileen enjoys working in mixed media for landscape, still life and the figure, but always returns to pastel and charcoal as her first choice. She finds inspiration in the English landscape and in the commonplace objects that surround us. Light and shadow and strong contrasting colours often spark an idea for a painting. She nearly always begins with a preliminary sketch and perhaps some photographs for further reference for painting in the studio, but working out of doors is always preferable.
She is available to organise drawing workshops, concentrating on pencil, charcoal and pastel.
Eileen has recently exhibited in the LSA and the Leicester Sketch Club exhibitions.