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About the Artist, Ling Quin Coo About the Artist, Jennifer Garant About the Artist , Jill Haney-Neal About the Artist, Darliene About the Artist, Peggy Howell About the Artist, Rebecca Molayem About the Artist, Joyce Ann Mudd About the Artist, Chrissa O'Brien About the Artist, Michael Paraskevas About the Artist, Philemon Reid About the Artist, Paul Strauch About the Artist, Eng Tay About the Artist, Sam Toft About the Artist, Susan de Waardt-Ruiter
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![[A Romantic Interlude]](http://www.chunkebusiness.geomerx.com/grfx/MediaVault/ic21357-ARomanticInterlude.jpg) About the Artist, Sam ToftSam Toft was born in June, 1964 in the UK. Sam's earliest ambition was to work in a post office. Instead she has been a fire extinguisher salesman, a silver service waitress, a death grants advisor, a Wedgwood Rooms worker, a catering manager, a civil servant, a student, an au pair and an unemployed person. She graduated from Kingston Polytechnic with a BA in Applied Social Science (having transferred from a business sandwich degree with French). She had not a clue what to do but knew through and through that she would never be a Poet. A career in the civil service was not well tolerated and catering management wasn't really where the heart was. A change in direction was needed. Sharpish. She moved up to Liverpool and did a BTEC in General Art and Design at City of Liverpool Community College where an inspirational teacher by the name of Hering gave her the confidence to give it a go with her pictures. She made so many handmade cards and applied herself to illustration work and doing caricatures and making wedding invitations. But best of all, she liked doing just pictures. "I am lucky that the accident of my birth left me at the edge of things - ever watchful, observant and compelled to link scenes and memories into some kind of narrative. Stripes, textures, delicious whiffs, children's rhymes, eccentric characters, lovely hats, nostalgic tunes and beautiful dogs are all things that catch my attention and fuel my imagination. I am grateful to these favourite things that make my creativity possible, along with my eyes, my hands and especially my mum." She practices and teaches yoga and is a devil for a café latte and a well turned out cake. chunkEbusiness welcomes the art of Sam Toft. |
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