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Shazia with pupils at Westbourne House School
If you're a school in Sussex, Surrey, or Hampshire looking to enrich your art programme with visiting artist workshops, I'd love to hear from you. Whether it's inspiring younger pupils, guiding scholarship students, or creating exhibition-worthy pieces, I work collaboratively with art departments to support their curriculum and celebrate student creativity.
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Throughout my thirty-year career as a painter, certain artists have acted as guiding lights—not because I want to paint like them, but because they've shown me what's possible when you're brave enough to push boundaries, to trust your materials, and to believe that painting still has something vital to say. Here are my 8 artist influences.
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Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell was a big influence on me as an art student. Why? Because she was the first to do crazy things with paint—to really do things with it, to make it move and sing and shout.
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Jenny Saville
You could sit with a Jenny Saville for the rest of your life and still be surprised by what she has done with the paint. She's constantly pushing boundaries, challenging our perceptions of what painting is today and its relevance in our image-saturated world.
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Fiona Rae
Fiona Rae puts ideas of abstraction to the test and wins every time. Her work taught me that intuitive painting doesn't mean uncontrolled painting; it means being so in tune with your process that every mark, however spontaneous it appears, is exactly right.
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Ian McKeever
I was taught by Ian during my Master's degree—the sweetest, most brilliant painter. His work explores landscapes and our relationship with them, how we see space and the land around us. Ian was a landscape artist in the 80s, and his abstract work grew from that deep connection to place.
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