<p>Val is a photographer and print maker who studied in the art departments of the universities of Reading and Newcastle - upon - Tyne with a sixth year at Goldsmiths Collge London.&nbsp;</p>
<p>She is excited by compositions of texture, colour and pattern and etheral. In some cases the images are cropped. She has been a member of the Northampton Town and County Art Society for many years and has recently joined the very active Kettering and Disctrict Art Society.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Val has exhibited many times in the county, in a solo show in Colchester and in a group project in Tuscan Arizona.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here work appears in private collections across the world.&nbsp;</p>
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<p><em>"Wabi-Sabi is a quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. It is a beauty of things medest and humble. It is beauty of things unconventional"</em></p>
<p>Leonard Koren</p>