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Sally Northwood, NDD, ATD, BA (hons).

I trained as a painter at Reading University, where I also took an Art Teachers Diploma. I taught in Trinidad, Tanzania, Suffolk and Surrey.

I was brought up on a Warwickshire farm and drew and painted from early childhood. During the 1980’s, whilst teaching in Haslemere, I began work on intricate watercolours of plants and trees.

During the part-time mature students degree course at WSCAD, Farnham (1989-94), I started making large, detailed drawings of the head from life. These formed the basis of my very large paintings and etchings of groups of heads.

I have exhibited in Dar es Salaam, Cyprus, France, Rome, also the RA Summer Exhibition and the National Print Exhibition. I have also had work in galleries in Hampshire, Surrey and London, and continue to exhibit regularly.

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." And he said:

       Your Children are not your children.
       They are the sons and daughters of  Life's longing for itself.
       They come through you but not from you,
       And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
       You may give them your love but not your thoughts. 
       For they have their own thoughts.
       You may house their bodies but not their souls,
       For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
       You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
       For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
       You are the bows from which you children as living arrows are sent forth.
       The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that
       His arrows may go swift and far.
       Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
       For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

       a poetic essay on Children by Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet).

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