Who is Peggy-Dot?
About my art…
Like many, I began painting in “lock-down” with the help of numerous online courses, YouTube videos and books. I quickly discovered a passion for painting architecture, then was utterly delighted, and absolutely amazed (I still am 🙂), to find that a lot of people really liked what I was painting! I have gradually developed (and am very much still developing) my own whimsical, illustrative style, aiming to give my buildings personality and a magical twist. I tend to say my paintings are “inspired” by a building or a place, as I aim to paint the quirky, beautiful, romantic world I would like to live in, rather than the actual reality – dragging my subjects down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, as it were.
I was incredibly honoured (absolutely blown away, to be honest) to be awarded the Cromer VEO Arts & Crafts Award - overall show winner - prize this year (2025) for my painting “The Little Corner Dress Shop on Jetty Street”
I definitely have an eye towards anthropomorphism with my buildings, attempting to reflect their history and personalities within my depiction. I often get complaints from people who, upon seeing one of my paintings, take a trip to visit the place I have painted or Google it, only to be extremely disappointed that it isn’t how it looks in reality!
I also find inspiration from vintage dolls and abandoned toys… and then there are the works that just spring entirely out of my imagination!
I predominantly paint in gouache, but I also use watercolour, pen & ink and professional pencil.
The Cromer VEO Arts & Crafts Award 2025
To view all my artworks please click for my Gallery Page below.
ORIGINAL ARTWORKS…
Currently, my original artworks are not available to purchase online, I only sell these at exhibitions, so please sign up for my newsletter to be kept informed of my forthcoming events. I hope to be offering my original artworks for sale online soon, these will be available in the UK only.
FINE ART PRINTS…
Fine art giclée prints will be available soon from my online store, once this is up and running. Unfortunately, they will only be available to be purchased and delivered within the UK. Outside the UK prints can be purchased via my REDBUBBLE store.
MY ONLINE SHOP…
My own online shop will be coming to this website soon. Items from this shop will only be available for purchase and delivery within the UK. Currently, you can purchase prints, cards and other merchandise created from my artwork via my Redbubble shop, items from which are available in the UK and internationally.
REDBUBBLE PRINTS AND MERCHANDISE…
My artwork is available as prints, cards and also upon merchandise in the UK and internationally available via the sales platform on Redbubble via the button below…
About my words…
I wasn’t always an artist; once upon a time I was a writer – for the first half century of my life, to be exact. I have published four novels, which are available on Amazon Kindle. Please go to my Books page to discover more about my writing and to purchase the books…
About me…
Very much a latecomer to this painting party, I am completely self taught, with a lifelong, instilled belief that I absolutely could not paint or draw — which just goes to show that lifelong, instilled beliefs should all be shredded and put in the recycling bin! Hence, from the youngest age, all I wanted to be was a writer… then one day I found the key to the little low door which led to the world of art!
I was born in London, raised in Essex but now reside in the beauty of rural Norfolk, UK, with my darling husband — who also just happens to be my very best friend in the whole universe! When I am not painting, you can generally find me out walking, riding my bicycle, reading, writing, in the garden… or tinkering at one of my myriad of craft projects… or off on an inspiring adventure somewhere with my “entangled-particle” in our beloved tiny, battered, old caravan, Itsy-Bitsy.
My Inner Child - Gouache 2024