So, a bit more about my background and where my love for art, and particularly painting, all started.

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As the eldest child of three siblings, my mother has always told me I was a very content child, and long before the days of iPads and iPhones, I was always drawing, colouring in and happy in my own company. Art always played a massive role in my school life, especially while I was in the later stages of my secondary school life, attending Down High School in Downpatrick. I dabbled in a few different mediums while trying to find my preferred practice at school, including ceramics, fashion design and print making, but the one true area that I loved was painting, especially animals. 

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After completing my GCSEs and then my A Levels, I received an Unconditional offer to attend the Foundation course at the University of Ulster Belfast Art Campus. The Foundation course was a fantastic opportunity to try all the different areas of both Fine and Applied art. Although I did enjoy different areas, such as the Textile Art and the Ceramic Sculpture, it was still the Fine Art painting segment that excited me and fulfilled me the most. As usual, cows featured heavily in my paintings, and this was where and when i was happiest at uni. 

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Fast forward to the end of Foundation year, and it was time for things to get serious. It was time to make a decision as to the career path I was going to take. So after a lot of deliberating I made the decision to follow my head instead of my heart with my art path. Instead of continuing with my Fine Art path and painting, using the three year degree course to develop and refine my skills, I choose the path of Visual Communication, a graphic design course which I felt would give me a much more realistic chance of getting a "proper job" at the end of my degree. BIG MISTAKE!!! I hated it! Not so much the course, but I just hated university in general. As a quiet, keep myself to myself country kid, the art college life was just not for me. I plodded through, did what I had to do to get my degree, but hated every moment of those three years - so much so that I chose to go on holiday with my boyfriend (who is now my husband) instead of attending my graduation. 

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After university I started to work in my family business (which I still do). I got married at 24 to my husband, Robert, and had my daughter, Grace, when I was 27, followed by my son, Rory, when I turned 30. Life has started to get very busy to say the least and painting didn't just take a back seat, it got well and truly parked while I was looking after and raising my young family.

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Then, fast forward eleven years, and after a brief encounter with my daughters paint set one day, I started to dabble with painting again. A good friend asked me to paint a portrait of her little dog, Mabel, and after posting it to my social media pages, I started to get enquiries from others about having their pets painted, or as gifts for their family and loved ones. 

From this... Laura Flynn Art was born!

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My art contains everything I love and everything that I enjoy - my love of colour, my admiration of nature and all the wonderful things that our great outdoors and beautiful Northern Ireland has to offer. In a busy world as a mummy and a wife, where 9 times out of 10, everyone else comes before you, painting has reminded me that I have my own personal magic. I want my art and paintings to give the same joy to others that it has brought back to me. 

 

Enjoy browsing my work. I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I have enjoyed creating it.

 

Laura

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