Sherree valentine daines biography books
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FINE 19th and 20th CENTURY BRITISH and EUROPEAN PAINTINGS
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Sherree Valentine-Daines was born in in Effingham, Surrey. She was not always an artist, at 18 she began work as a legal secretary in London. Realising the quality of the idle sketches she drew on her legal pads, it became clear that she had a talent for drawing.Valentine-Daines studied fine art at Epsom School of Art for 4 years, leaving in It was during her time at art school that she developed an interest in painting figures. After graduating, she spent the first summer in Cornwall, painting villages, harbours and beaches and most of all the people. She has also been known to paint the busy streets of London, especially showing passers by hailing cabs, looking around markets or leaving the theatre.
Sherree has had considerable success in her career, her colourful impressionist paintings appeal to a world wide clientele making her a favourite with many celebrity collectors including members of the British Royal
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Sherree Valentine-Daines Artist - Price Guide - Biography - Pictures for Sale
Sherree Valentine-Daines was born at Effingham in Surrey in into a highly artistic family. Her father was a sculptor and stonemason and her sisters are also artists. After studying at the Epsom School of Art she immediately attracted attention by winning the prestigious Laing Landscape and Seascape Competition and several further awards. Sherree's subjects range from landscapes to portraiture, working in oils, watercolour and pastels. She has painted the portraits of many famous people including Michael Parkinson on Rolf Harris's Star Portraits TV Show, as well as Joanna Lumley, John Sessions, Johnny Wilkinson and Martin Johnson. Increasingly, Sherree is building an international reputation with her paintings of the Social Scene and major sporting occasions such as Henley, Royal Ascot, World Cup Rugby, Tennis, Golf and Test Cricket. Some of her cricketing paintings, created as part of another TV • Sherree Valentine-Daines is known to many art lovers and collectors (including endorsements from the members of the British Royal Family) for her portraits and figurative work focussing on stars of the scen, screen and sports fields, having built up a fairly substantial back catalogue to date. Michael Parkinson, Joanna Lumley, Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen, Martin Johnson and Jonny Wilkinson being just some of the household names who have sat for Valentine-Daines and been subject to her brushstrokes. However the now much-celebrated contemporary artist may never have actually become a professional, as her early life panned out pretty far removed from where she finds herself these days. Sherree Valentine Daines
Valentine-Daines schooled in Leatherhead in Surrey, after being born in Effingham in Rather than attending college, the bright lights of London called and an year old Valentine-Daines answered by taking up a sensible, yet somewhat co