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Profile Carrie Lister
the
artist
within
Words by Sue Bradley
Pictures by Mark Watkins
Main right: Carrie
painting
Far right: Recent
painting of a
A schoolboy’s throwaway
landscape near to
her home
comment to his art teacher
Below: Carrie with
daughter Izzy (6)
lit the touch paper for a
Left: Carrie looking
life-changing career change
out from her attic
studio window in
for Carrie Lister. Cotswold
Standish
Essence meets an artist
whose landscapes and still
life paintings are fast
earning a legion of fans.
proving an overnight success at open
K
NITWEAR, tiles and
teddy bears: Carrie
studio events and exhibitions.
Today Carrie combines art with the full
Lister’s creative
time job of looking after her two
talents have found a
children, nine-year-old Freddie and
Isobel, six, and running a bed and
professional outlet in them breakfast business from a 17th Century
all.
farmhouse in Standish that she and
But it was while she was working as a
husband Tom spent three years
teacher of art and design that the 40-
renovating.
year-old finally decided to take the plunge
But, once her youngsters are at school
and pursue her love of painting.
and Tom has gone to work, she doesn’t
“One day one of the boys I taught said
have to look far for her inspiration.
to me: ‘if you’re so good at painting,
“Living in an area of outstanding
Miss, why don’t you be an artist,” Carrie
natural beauty I have felt compelled to
recalled.
paint the landscapes that I am continually
Since then she hasn’t looked back, with
passing through and around,” said
her landscapes and still life paintings
Carrie.
8 COTSWOLDESSENCE | SEPTEMBER ~ NOVEMBER 2009 www.cotswoldessence.co.uk
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