Member since Friday 28th Oct, 2011
DOROTHEA BUXTON-HYDE
BORN IN STAFFORDSHIRE ENGLAND.
BEGAN PAINTING AT THE AGE OF FOUR.
PAINTED ON PORCELAIN FOR SPODE IN 1958.
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST 1978,
EXHIBITING IN CRICCIETH ,PORTHMADOC
AND BEDDGELLERT, WHILST LIVING IN NORTH WALES.
ELECTED A MEMBER OF THE FINE ART TRADE GUILD 1983, UPON HOLDING A SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITION AT THEIR LONDON GALLERY.
DOROTHEA LAUNCHED HER OWN PUBLISHING COMPANY IN 1989, AND WITH THE HELP OF HER HUSBAND PHILIP, DISTRIBUTES TO GALLERIES
THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN, EUROPE, SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, CANADA AND AMERICA.
STARTING WITH WILDLIFE, DOROTHEA HAS ADDED FLORAL, STILL LIFE FIGURE WORK AND ABSTACT TO HER COLLECTION.
INTRODUCED TO PRINCESS MICHAEL OF KENT, WHEN DOROTHEA?S WORK WAS PART OF AN EXHIBITION HELD AT DRAPERS HALL LONDON
1989.
ARTIST OF THE YEAR FINALIST, OF THE FINE ART TRADE GUILD BUSINESS AWARDS SCHEME 1993.
NOMINATED AND LISTED FOR INCLUSION IN THE WHO?S WHO OF PROFESSIONALS, 1998.
DOROTHEA HAS THREE CHILDREN, LUCY, JEFFREY AND KEITH. SHE ENJOYS MAKING STAINED GLASS WINDOWS, WALKING AND SPENDING TIME WITH HER FAMILY, LISTENING TO MUSIC AND VISITS TO THE BALLET ARE HER FAVOURITE PASTIMES.
DOROTHEA SAY?S ?I LOVE AND ENJOY PAINTING AND IT?S A WONDERFUL FEELING KNOWING THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE ENJOYING MY WORK TOO?.
