Books by Linda Proud

Linda Proud was born in the Home Counties. Having failed to be inspired by the form of education on offer in the 60s, she left school with big dreams and small prospects. The subsequent years of typing pools and shop floors came to an end when she began a career in picture research, which steeped her in art and history and allowed her devote more time to writing. Valerie Petts qualified as a medical technologist and worked for some years in clinical research. It was on her return to Oxford in 1979 that she began painting and, through watercolour, rediscovered her love of the English landscape. She has also painted in South Africa and a series of watercolours of Cape Town and its environs have been made into prints.