A bonus of having the studio where the public can pop in, is that you get special days when someone really makes your heart sing. An Italian family are staying for a week and absolutely love and appreciate what Cornwall and we are all about.
Their daughter Agathe bounded into the studio yesterday with the broadest smile and returned today for a half hour little painting session when I let her loose with some of my watercolours. I thought she might want to paint the sea but she wanted to do animals, so catto and cane it was.
She could speak some English, we managed really well to converse with added sign language and lots of smiles, and she confidently picked the biggest brush and we had great fun mixing colours.
She even pulled the big chair over, sat in it in front of a large painting I’m working on at the moment and directed me to paint.
What a delight to have such a lovely free spirit with a love of creating and her father said she thought I was better than Van Gogh which really made me smile.
artbythesea 
Liz Colwill
June 30, 2015 at 7:48 am
Lovely Sue, she looks as if she is really enjoying the time with you and I love her painting.