Born and brought up in Dorset on the south coast of the UK, Ali did not expect to end up becoming an artist as she had dreams of being on a stage dancing and performing. When she decided that wasn’t exactly what she was meant to do, she was invited by her parents to join the family business - art materials, stationery and picture framing.
Now married to Richard, surrounded by glorious Dorsetshire countryside and the proud keeper of an expanding menagerie of animals, she spends every day painting, photographing and inventing new creative ideas to pass on to her students and followers across the world.
