Lila Streether

I have been painting for as long as I can remember; my mother is an artist and there were always paintings around the house as I was growing up! After working full-time for twenty years as a civil servant, I decided to work part-time (for the Bath Chronicle) and this enabled me to take part in several art and craft courses. After taking courses in Embroidery, Stained Glass and Mosaics, I eventually returned to painting. My main love of flower painting steered me towards taking a botanical painting course with Angie Girling, a very talented botanical RHS award winner, who taught me the discipline of colour and painting in layers with watercolours. I now belong to the Bath Society of Botanical Artists, and we exhibit formal work annually at the Podium in Bath.

I have exhibited in and around the South-West of England and in Dublin. My paintings have found their way to many different countries including the U.S.A and Australia.

Although I specialise in flora, I also enjoy painting landscapes and other subjects. I have recently painted in acrylics, the medium being a very different way of painting to watercolours, but enjoyable nonetheless. The Old Bakery Artist Group, with its alliance of artists gives me the opportunity to try out and exhibit with different media.