Students paint picture of success

Jul 1 2009 by Aranda Garrard, The Journal

A MOTHER of four joined fellow students in showing off artistic talent at an end-of-year show at Gateshead College.

Gen Stone from Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, returned to education and her passion for art after years spent teaching and raising a family.

Now the 46-year-old, along with other art and design students awarded their foundation diploma in art and design at the college, have won university places for further study.

They are 42-year-old David Tweedy, of Durham; Imogen Coates, 19, Whitley Bay; Newcastle’s Dean Crawford, 24, and 18-year-old Paul Robinson.

Gen said: “I’m now really looking forward to the university degree and the possibility of pursuing a career in art afterwards.”