Hi! I'm Vanessa and I started my creative journey about four years ago when I discovered Folk Art and Decorative painting and, more to the point, that I was quite good at it! With only few years under my belt I'm very much the 'apprentice' amongst the more experienced artists that can be found here.
I paint on a variety of surfaces including canvas, card, glass, fabric and furniture with acrylic paints adding mixed-media pieces more recently. ARC stands for Art, Rocks and Crafts, though my main activity and first love is painting.
With a passion to encourage others to find their own 'inner artist' and take up a creative activity I run workshops to teach the brushstroke techniques used in Folk and Canal Art, decorative painting and Powertex fabric sculpting.