AN artist from Ashwater will be opening up her cottage studio this September to the public to display her wide range of work.

Painting has always played a key role in Laraine Golding’s life since childhood.

She studied art at college and Missenden Abbey in Buckinhghamshire where she successfully achieved her City & Guilds in watercolour, her favourite medium. Since moving to Devon she has completed a ‘landscape diploma’ course over two years with London Art College resulting successfully with a Distinction in landscape.

Laraine has previously exhibited at the Menier Gallery in Southwark, London, the Henley Gallery in Oxfordshire, and the Hatters Gallery in Luton, Bedfordshire.

Living then in Buckinghamshire she was incited to have one of her paintings, ‘Sunlit Beechwoods’, chosen to be published in the book ‘Special Trees & Woods of the Chilterns’, as she often visited the beautiful woodland area of Burnham Beeches.

Laraine has now lived in Devon for eight years and took part in the Devon Open Studios are event in 2017, opening her cottage gallery in Henford, Ashwater, for the event which was very successful.

The public are invited once again to her studio this month, from September 14 to 22, 11am to 5pm, to view a mixture of landscapes, still life, botanical and seascapes and in various mediums.