Artist and Tutor Cheryll Kinsley Potter

Cheryll was born in 1950 in Aldershot, Hampshire. Her father was in the Army and was posted to Germany, Singapore, Malaya, Belgium and finally to Bahrain. They all travelled together then in 1966 settled in the North of England, where Cheryll attended Northwich School of Art, Cheshire.

In 1971 Cheryll graduated from St. Martin's School of Art, London.

Cheryll worked in Textile Restoration and Theatre Design, married and had two children and when they were in their teens she started painting Landscapes and Portrait commissions.

She had various group exhibitions including 'Five Women Artists' in Camden Town and 'Mediteranean Landscapes' with CCA Galleries and was invited to represent Britain with '6 European Artists' at the European Centre of Culture, Cologne, Germany.

Cheryll worked part time at the Camden and Islington Adult Education Institute, tutoring adults in Painting and Drawing and gave private tuition to children for their GCE's and A levels.

In 1996 she became the Art Director for Michael Flatley's 'Lord of the Dance' and created the Unicorn image that became the Show Logo.

With a taste for things 'Irish' she moved to Connemara in 1998 and in 2001 had her first Solo Exhibition, 'Myth and Landscape' at the Kenny Gallery Galway.

After visiting the Ancient Monasteries of Meteora, Kalambaka, Central Greece, Cheryll joined the Association of iconographerss of Ireland and began to learn the Art of Icon Painting. She was commissioned by St Paul's Arran Quay, Dublin to create an Icon of The Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta and following that, was privately commissioned to create an Icon of St. Brigit.

In 2004 she started her Iconography and Painting Studio in Oughterard, Connemara, County Galway. Six years on, after moving to London, Cheryll still teaches Oil Painting, Watercolour and Egg Tempera as well as producing her own sought after Paintings.