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My drawing habit started shortly after I crawled my way to the nearest box of crayons. If there was anything arty going on, I was in it (or covered in it!) and have had an ongoing fascination with mixed media and illustration art from an early age.
As a young child I discovered the work of Edith Holden and Beatrix Potter, and became hooked, keeping my own garden diary, full of little drawings of the flora and fauna discovered in our back garden. This eventually developed into full blown art journaling and scrapbooking, which I continue to this day.
Over the years I have experimented in many forms of art, but always return to my mixed media roots – usually bringing along whatever new media I have found to play with on my travels. I prefer illustrative over abstract but I look at abstract art with envy and often wonder how they don’t end up with something titled ‘brown sludge on canvas’.

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All original content on this site is copyright © 2005-2009 Klair Scattergood. Please do not use any artwork from this site without prior permission of the artist.

All rights reserved.

If you wish to use my artwork with permission, please email your request to rhomany{at}gmail{dot}com. I am always happy to listen to any reasonable request.

Inspirations

Teesha Moore, Audrey Kawasaki, Tamara Laporte, AnneJulie, Wendy Pressian, Aisling D’art, Tera Leigh,
Rosina Wachtmeister, Linda Jane Smith, Andrea Joseph, Raymond Briggs, Shelley Wilson, Wayne Anderson, Leanne Ellis, Daniel Merriam, Tim Burton and Tascha.

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Materials

My go-to method of creation is ‘throw it at the page and see what sticks’. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a page either. The only things I won’t use are oil paints (too impatient) and wood (unless it’s from a renewable source). Most of my paintings are a combination of watercolour paper, canvas or MDF, with acrylics paints, watercolour crayons/pencils/paints, matte medium, collage papers, beeswax and anything that can be stuck, sewn, embedded, mixed with or otherwise incoporated into any of the above. I prefer to work small rather than large as I find my I tend to lose perspective easily due a visual impairment.
If I had to be stuck on a Desert Island I could survive with my Moleskine, my Neocolor IIs and a Pritt Stick. Provided said Desert Island had a local paper.

Art Journals

I ♥ my Moleskines. All of them. I especially like the large size, but I try not to have favourites.
Daler Rowney Sketchbooks (8×8″)
Self-made journals in a variety of styles using 300gsm watercolour paper
Scraps of paper/magazine cutouts/ephemera from paintings
Acrylic paints, watercolour mediums, pencil and gel pens

Resume

I am a fully qualified FE/HE Teacher in the UK and am registered for QTLS with the Institue for Learning (membership number AB054094).

I began teaching in 1998 and for the last 8 years I have been working as a teacher in HE/FE and Adult & Community Education. Previously I taught IT including digital photographic, video and audio manipulation at a local College and now teach ‘Skills to Earn for Performing Arts’ on a part-time basis, for a charitable organisation.

I recently set up my company ‘Rhomany’s Realm’ to pursue a life-long dream of being a working artist and hope to break into illustrating children’s books.

Qualifications

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