Ali Meaker

In 2018 a dear friend suggested I 'had a go' at oil painting. Picking up my late fathers oil paints and brushes were a way of being close to him and my grandfather. Both were amateur artists, my father was more comfortable with watercolour and my grandfather a lover of oils.

I've always been creative, but never with paints. I love nature and plants and trees and clouds and sky's and water.
I love how light creates shapes and shadows, mood and atmosphere and if I can capture even a small amount of the wonder of the natural world around us, I will be content and if someone loves it too, all the better.

Over the years I have successfully sold many paintings and completed a number of commissions, for which I have received wonderful feedback.

I have recently retired after running my own small gallery The Artful Duck in Raunds. Previous to that I worked for 22 years in the NHS. My painting certainly helped me during the stressful latter years, during Covid and increasing pressure on the NHS.