Lally’s love affair with watercolour began early in life. She learnt her craft watching her grandfather – a member of the Royal Watercolourists Society – at work.

He taught her how to stretch the paper to get a flat surface. She learnt that the stretching of the paper gave you more control over the washes helped with in obtaining quality in the detail.  He also taught her the value of good quality paper and the differences in the colour pigments of the paints.   “I never paint without stretching the paper; otherwise it will just buckle with a heavy wash. You need a perfectly flat surface. No bubbles, no wrinkles,” says Lally.

“Some pigments move very fast and I watch to see how they spread. I might pick up the picture and turn it upside down to see what the paint will do.”

To this day watercolours remain Lally’s favourite artistic medium. During her formal training at the Newport College of Art she was introduced to other media, such as abstract oil painting and screen painting.

But her passion for watercolours has stayed with her.  “Watercolours have always felt the most natural thing in the world for me to do.”

In the 1980s Lally went to work in the Alps as a cook and became a ski instructor and later started painting the snow scenes she loved.

Inspired by her love of skiing, Lally completed many watercolours of her favourite views and mountains in the areas such as : Chamonix, Argentiere, Zermatt, St. Moritz, Murren, Wengen, Verbier, Val d’Izere in particular. Success followed with her first exhibition in 1991 at the Ski Club of Great Britain. An article about the exhibition was published in the Peterborough column of the Daily Telegraph. She sold twenty-four paintings at the exhibition and in 1993 she repeated the success at the same venue.

Inspired by her love of skiing, Lally completed many watercolours of her favourite views and mountains in the areas such as : Chamonix, Argentiere, Zermatt, St. Moritz, Murren, Wengen, Verbier, Val d’Izere in particular.

Success followed with her first exhibition in 1991 at the Ski Club of Great Britain. An article about the exhibition was published in the Peterborough column of the Daily Telegraph. She sold twenty-four paintings at the exhibition and in 1993 she repeated the success at the same venue.

Since then Lally has continued to exhibit her watercolours in West End galleries and in local exhibitions around the UK.

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