This is my dream. My goal. If fundraising does not work it wont stop me from getting there by myself. I'm a tough cookie, but 32400£ is no small amount to work towards for someone with 314£ in the bank.

I'm an artist. And even though my mother and grandmother both wished me to make a career out of it I myself were too stubborn and pessimistic to dare try. So instead I started to study to become a Conservator of Oil Paintings and has until now been studying chemistry to make that happen. But its killing me to look forward to a future of fixing other peoples work and not create art of my own.

So when one of the teachers of Charles Cecil's suggested I took my skills to their Atelier and study the arts of creating Oil Paintings myself it was a wakeup call for me to persue something that my pessimistic slash practical inner voice finds to be mad.

I'm ready to work my a** off for this. But I need all the help you can spare.

Thank you, this is the dream I never before dared to go for. You help me put faith in this and myself.

Bless you.

- A