AFTER a long career as a Canberra teacher, Wendy Macklin started painting several years ago, and once likened herself to  American folk artist Grandma Moses.

When she became semi-retired and she and her husband, “CityNews” columnist and author Robert, found they were spending more time in their alternative house at Tuross Head on the south coast, Wendy looked out the window to Coila Beach, saw visions of kite flying, cricketing and all the things ordinary people did and thought she’d try “a little beach picture”.

She’s since had several successful art shows but with lockdowns and voluntary isolating times, the paintings have accumulated.

“I’m still doing beach and coast pictures,” she says, “with happy people, happy kids, happy dogs… but I didn’t know where to put all the paintings, so we turned the old garage/ping pong room at the Tuross Beach House into a gallery – “The Summer House”, which she’s launching over Easter.

Wendy’s not biased, but she reckons “it’s the most artistic, colourful games room on the south coast!”

Wendy Macklin art show, Chauvel Crescent, Tuross Head, from April 8 to April 10, 2pm-5pm.