I have just this minute opened up your email to find the most exciting and encouraging news, more than I could have ever hoped for after a 2 year period away from painting. 

You cannot imagine the inspiration you have given me with a Special Recognition Award for my entry “Floating Poppies” into the Botanicals Art Exhibition. 

The empathy, information and direction you give artists hoping to venture into a wider audience and more commercial world of art is amazing and I for one am hugely appreciative. 

Artists, especially self-taught like me, lack so much confidence when it comes to marketing their work and you have supplied us with a hope that it is possible to achieve recognition and hopefully some success in order to allow us to continue to be creative. 

I venture forth now with renewed gusto and determination and will most certainly hope to enter your future competitions.  Thank you so very much!

Sheena White - www.sheenawhiteart.com