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Valerie Christmas


 Regatta 
 
 Seahorses 
 
 Tree Sparrows 
 
 December 
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 Penstemons 
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 Garden Corner 
 
 Spring Garden 
 
 Snowdrops 
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 Hare Streaking 
 
 Bumble Bee 
 
 Snowdrop Path 
 
 Anemones 
 
 In the Park 
 
 Love-in-the-Mist 
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 Old Hamy Rocks 
 
 Sweet Peas 
 
 Puffins 
 
 Rabbits 
 
 Spring Flowers 
 
 Garden Posy 
 
 Garden Snail 
 
 Blossom 
 
 Bowls 2 
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 Bowls 1 
 
 Freesias 
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 March Hares 
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 In the Swim 
 
 White Crocuses 
 
 Oyster Catcher 
 
 Shire Horse 
 
 Durdle Door 
 
 Showgirls 
 
 The Daily Round 
 
 The Orchard 
 
 Snowdrift 
 
     
Valerie was born in Surrey. She studied Drawing and Book Illustration for four years at the Wimbledon School of Art from which she gained entrance to the Royal College of Art, London for a further three years. She gained a Honours Degree in Painting.

Her and her family moved to Dorset and painted intermittently. On returning to teaching Art she studied etching at the Bournemouth and Poole School of Art and Design.

She exhibited her work at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and because of the success she took up etching full time and now many galleries throughout the country and abroad show her work.

Nature is a constant inspiration – the changing seasons and colours, the variety of shapes and forms of flowers and foliage, birds, animals, insects etc. The Dorset landscape and seashore provide endless subject matter. She enjoys the use of line and texture in the disciplined process of etching trying to preserve a spontaneity and liveliness of the intricate work of using a fine needle. The aquatint process allows a tonal quality very like washes of watercolour which gives a transparent to the print.