Biography

Aileen Wrennall, GSWA, Professional Watercolour Artist

I originally worked as a photographer in a graphic design company producing high quality artwork for different types of clients. Many of my photographs won competitions and I later became a photographic competition judge for the West of Scotland. I then worked for an international exhibition company designing graphics and exhibition display stands for major companies both in the UK and worldwide.

During this time I became interested in sketching and drawing and attended classes in drawing, life drawing and painting at various colleges including The Glasgow School of Art. This awakened my interest in painting, particularly watercolour.

In recent years I have enhanced my painting skills and knowledge of techniques by painting in the UK and abroad with Charles Reid, one of the foremost American water colourists and teachers of painting. I also paint regularly in the UK and France with Shirley Trevena, whose fabulous watercolours were part of my original inspiration to paint.

I now paint full time and have sold successfully both privately and in exhibitions at home and abroad. In 2007 my painting 'Apples and Pears' won the Coombe Farm Studios Prize Award at the Artist and Leisure Painter Magazine Annual International Competition. In 2008 I was elected as an artist member to the Glasgow Society of Women Artists. (GSWA)

Although watercolour has a reputation for being a difficult medium to master, I love the many challenges it provides, and if it is given the respect, time and patience it deserves, it is a medium that rewards with the most amazingly beautiful and satisfying effects.

Aileen