Although a Shields Lass Sheila has kept very close links with Sunderland & Seaburn over the years.. She studied Fine Art at Sunderland College of Art in the 1950's .. now re-named the posher "University of Sunderland where she was invited to create an Animation Faculty in 2002 and taught on it until 2021. She also did a lot of work Running Art/Animation workshops and Making Documentary Videos with Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery under the friendly commissioning eyes of NeiL (Forner Senior Curator TWAM ) and Dr. Helen Sinclair - (Former Principal Education Officer TWAM) . IN 1988 she was commissoned to make a series of drawing for a Sunderland Calendar so has 8 pen and ink drawings all done on the spot as part this archive collection. Also let's face it Seaburn is just up the coast from Shields so she takes her sketch book along ( in the car ) and make on site watercolours and drawings.
