PROFESSIONAL artist Andrea Bates demonstrated her skills for residents at the Henry Cornish Care Centre in Chipping Norton.

Mrs Bates, 71, from Enstone, showed residents at the home in Rock Hill Farm, off London Road, how to paint a spring landscape depicting Little Rollright village, near Chipping Norton.

On Thursday, she set up her easel in the care home lounge and demonstrated work in both pastels and oil paints.

Mrs Bates said: “They seemed enthusiastic and came up and looked close up.

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“They showed a lot of interest and some of them bought some of the cards I was selling.”

Mrs Bates exhibits her portraits and landscapes at galleries in London and across the UK.

She will be showing work at this year’s Oxfordshire Artweeks celebration of county talent on May 2 at her home, Hillside, on the A44 in Enstone.

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