Leading painter leads workshopsas hall celebrates local landscapes

Mark Branagan

One the country’s leading watercolour painters and illustrators was at Nunnington Hall, near Helmsley, yesterday.

The painting workshop by Lesley Fotherby was linked to the hall’s autumn exhibition, From Ilkley Moor to Scarborough Fair, a celebration of 200 years of Yorkshire landscape painting.

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She is regarded as one of the best naturalistic cat artists in the country and is well known for her domestic garden scenes.More recently she has been focusing on Yorkshire, having lived in Wensleydale for 29 years.

A graduate of the Bath Academy of Art, the Ravensbourne College of Art, Kent, and Leicester University, she taught until taking up painting full-time in the 1980s.

Books featuring her works include Gardens: Drawing and Painting in Watercolour (1993), Cats: Drawing and Painting in Watercolour (1993), her story, The Cat Who Came to Stay (1992), and five books by Doreen Tovey: Cats in May (1993), Cats in the Belfry (1993), Double Trouble (1994), The New Boy (1994) and More Cats in the Belfry (1995).

Nunnington Hall’s Visitor Services Manager Annabelle Coaten, said: “Our autumn exhibition will be fantastic – a real celebration of Yorkshire, and it’s lovely that Lesley’s work will feature in the show.”

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