Here you will find samples of work by Yvonne Dolloway.
These Paintings in acrylics and oils, are inspired by her move to the shores
of the Moray Firth. Gardenstown, with the famous Pennan and Crovie a couple of miles along the coast in Aberdeenshire.
Yvonne's ancestral roots are Scottish, so it is really only to be expected that she feels
so at home here.
Born Yvonne Hume ,Yvonne found she belonged to Clan Hume, a Scottish Border family.
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DISABILITY
Yvonne has been registered blind in England for the past 15 years with macular degeneration, which unlike age related macular, Yvonne has had her problem for 30 years
But recently in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Yvonne has been "promoted" to partially sighted.
Yvonne was finally diagnosed as having Doynes, a very rare form of Macular Degeneration, It makes no difference to what Yvonne can see, as Yvonne still has no center vision.
Macular Degeneration
is a medical condition which usually affects older adults that results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the macula) because of damage to the retina. It occurs in “dry” and “wet” forms. It is a major cause of visual impairment in older adults (>50 years). Macular degeneration can make it difficult or impossible to read or recognise faces.
Yvonne says "Probably because of my macular degeneration, colour is the main factor to my work."
Yvonne Dolloway currently exhibit at the Marjoribamks Gallery, (which has just been changed to Coldstream Gallery) Coldstream, Berwickshire
Denside Gallery, Gardenstown.
The Garden arms,Gardenstown.
Gallery i Inverurie Aberdeenshire.
New Ground Gallery Gamrie
Yvonne Dolloway was born in Southsea, Hampshire, but grew up in Warwickshire in the Midlands.
Yvonne married and spent 23 years in Bude Cornwall, from where her love of the sea was born.
Cornwall, with it's rugged coastline and surfing beaches was a hard act to follow, however, Yvonne then spent 6 great years renovating houses in France with her present husband.
Yvonne has always dabbled with painting, but on her return to England four years ago and her move to Gardenstown in Aberdeenshire, Yvonne began to paint full-time.
Of course Yvonne is back by the sea, motivated by the waves crashing on the beach outside her window while she paints.
It is a journey of discovery, a passion, a need.
Yvonne is Self taught and paints 24/7, "I am totally obsessed, perhaps because I worry about my sight and how much time I have left, I look for the drama and mood I can capture in a painting, I am fascinated by moonlight and sunsets. "
" My husband my biggest critic and mentor. to whom I owe so much for his belief in me. "
