ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES - MAUREEN JORDAN

Maureen Jordan grew up in East Yorkshire, England, and studied Exhibition Design and display at Kingston Hull Art College. She has worked most of her life in London designing shops, exhibitions, offices and refurbishing hotels. All of this involved her creative sense of imagination in order to select colors and materials, anything from rough tiles, knobby fabrics to shimmering silks. Now as an artist working mainly in pastel, her inspiration is still color and texture- old walls, trellises and pots, all which are used as backgrounds for her floral paintings.

Maureen has been a keen gardener for many years. Almost all of her pictures are painted in her garden, often by the pond, and surrounded by pots of various shapes and sizes containing plants specially grown or collected for her pictures. Maureen's garden brings her much joy. Her desire for painting is to bring a little of the cherished outdoors inside so it can be enjoyed by everyone!