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Sam Toft


 Just Me You and Doris 
 
 Come Rain Come Shine 
 
 Tree Swapping 
 
 Picnic Time Approacheth 
 
 
Born in June 1964, Sam's earliest ambition was to work in a post office. Instead she has been a fire extinguisher salesman, a silver service waitress, a death grants advisor, a Wedgwood Rooms worker, a catering manager, a civil servant, a student, an au pair and an unemployed person. She has lived in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Le Vaudreuil Ville Nouvelle, Essex, Surrey, Liverpool, Balham, Tooting, Ealing and Middlesex but has settled for the now in Brighton& Hove. She graduated from Kingston Polytechnic with a BA in Applied Social Science (having transferred from a business sandwich degree with French). She moved up to Liverpool and did a BTEC in General Art and Design at City of Liverpool Community College where an inspirational teacher by the name of Hering gave her the confidence to give it a go with her pictures. Sam has been working as an artist these past 12 years using mixed media: oil pastels, coloured inks, scraffito and the innovative fingers-and-thumbs technique. She has her pictures in galleries here and the USA.