Carmelita was born in the Philippines.
In 1987 she married John, whose job with the BBC took them both to
Singapore for five years, and whilst there she took a course in Fashion Design, which gave her a taste for painting and drawing.
Moving to England in 1993, she began painting in earnest, taking classes at a local
college. In 1998 John and Carmelita moved to Wales and opened an Art Gallery in a
small market town, showing the work of established artists from mid-
including John Rice, David Spencer Stoves & David Bellamy.
She successfully entered many local exhibitions, winning in consecutive years (2003/2004) the R.P.Benbow Cup
for the best overall entry at the Knighton Show on the Welsh borders, as well as the Stan Goodall Cup for the best landscape. Carmelita and John now reside in Oxfordshire, where they exhibit with the Banbury & District Art Society.
Carmelita is an eclectic artist, fascinated by the lives of earlier painters (known
and unknown), and her painting style spans the gamut from realism to abstract expressionism
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