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Marjorie Narey

Marjorie was born in Yorkshire and lived in Newquay for six years and now is living in London.

She attended Keighley Girls grammar School, and later obtained a psychology based degree in social science, which is also art based.

She worked for the local MP in Keighley and later worked as a debt management counsellor for a firm in West Yorkshire. 

Often visiting Cornwall as a child with her parents on holiday, she knew at an early age that she would love to live in the county with it's beautiful rugged coast and warm climate.

She realised her dream and came to live in Newquay, and soon took up drawing and painting, first with Grace Rice who taught her to draw and later with Ivy Richie-Hockin at Age UK.

Her paintings are usually in oils and acrylics. She paints landscapes, seascapes, flowers and animals, but also loves to experiment with modern paintings.

She also loves music and astronomy, and is an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, classifying deep space galaxies with Galaxy Zoo.

Since moving to London she sings with two classical music choirs, one of which performs in the Royal Albert Hall.