BEVERLEY ROBSON
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BA English/Art
Currently studying MA Fine Art
Originally from Essex, Beverley Robson moved to Stoke on Trent to start a new life on her own, in her mid-forties. She left her family and friends behind in Essex, but settled and made a new life for herself, when she started teaching at Newcastle under Lyme School. It was there, she met and later married, the Master of Rugby.
She regularly travels to Essex and France to see her family but loves living in the Midlands where the people are so friendly and the countryside is so beautiful and peaceful. Newcastle Town has become her home; a place to inspire her painting and writing.In her observations, on walks, in the countryside, beaches or parks, the many places of natural beauty, she is transfixed by elements of nature.
The textures, lines and fluid shapes, that seem to move in the sunlight or hide in shadows and undergrowth, are evident in her work. She is most inspired by the French Pyrenees, the Lake District, and local country parks and walks, including Lyme Valley.Although retirement provided her with the time to paint and write, she has also enjoyed her sporadic work as a career’s adviser, keeping contact with present trends and young people.
More recently, studying an MA in Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, she has been able to develop her artistic style end engage with other talented artists.Originally, mainly painting in oils, she painted pet portraits for friends and family and a variety of landscapes. She enjoyed the texture and blending of colours, with a slow-drying medium. Oil on canvas was always her preferred medium although pencil and charcoal drawings, are also evident in her early work.
Recently, she has focused on acrylics and watercolours and since starting her MA in Fine Art, she has begun using Acrylic Inks.She has been developing her style from representational landscape paintings to more abstract paintings, continually connecting and responding to nature.
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From this: to this:
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'Lake District' 'Bluebell Wood'
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"Capturing those memories in words."
Writing:
She writes under the name 'Beverley Joughin-Robson, to include her past years and experiences. Having always enjoyed writing about places, people and experiences, that have made an impression on her, she finds her best writing tends to be written when she is most emotional.
Her poetry book came first. Browsing through poems she had written over the last twenty years or so, like looking back over old photographs, she was taken back to moments in her life and engrossed in forgotten memories. After some culling and re-writing, she collated them chronologically as they took her through different periods in her life. Adding poems inspired by the birth of her granddaughter and further reflective poems, she produced this anthology.
Beverley Joughin-Robson admits, the best time to publish poetry is when you are older. You do not care as much about what people think and you are more willing to ‘reveal,’ yourself to a public audience.She has been inspired by the humour and rhythms of Roger McGough, the powerful descriptive scenes of war poets such as Wilfred Owen and the memories and people described in the poetry of poets such as Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy. Like her influences, her poetry is an eclectic mix.
Her first novel is a story that evolved from stories her mother told her of her childhood and of memorable events from her own childhood and life growing up. She was only a few chapters in when the narrative changed tact. A murder began to evolve through the narrative and she decided to
re-write parts of the story, turning it into a more gripping murder mystery.
The sequel, which is much more of a crime story, would resolve the questions, she knew her readers would be asking and was begun soon after her first book was published.
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