Celia started her art career studying life and portrait charcoal drawing with Signorina Simi in Florence. She is now a member of a dynamic art group and several art societies in Surrey where she lives. She has taken part in group, private and national exhibitions and has won several prizes including the 2005 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI) medal and the Windsor & Newton 3rd Prize at the RWS Open Exhibition 2010.
Although she also paints in acrylics, watercolours are her first love and she finds her subject matter in her own garden where she keeps a large selection of chickens and occasional Gloucester Old Spot pigs. Celia’s book, The Illustrated Guide to Chickens, was published in April 2010
She has also written and illustrated The Illustrated Guide to Pigs which will be published in July 2011 with a foreword by HRH The Princess Royal. Both books include rare and endangered breeds and Celia feels strongly that they should not be lost to future generations but hopes that by painting them she may do a little to help preserve them.
