Artwork by Myrna Carr
… ART has been in my life from the age of seven. I took a stick and drew in the soil. A special feeling inside me began then and ever since I’ve been involved with art on many levels. At school it was my favourite subject and a painting of mine hung in the assembly hall and this told me I had something. I would be asked to draw by the other kids in my class. On leaving school I went to Art College and on leaving I secured a job as junior to a designer making samplers for company Buyers to see for their new ranges.
I later married, had children and when the girls left school I returned to Art College to do Fine Arts & Textiles course as a full time student for five years. I was aged 37. …
