I was given a big bag of beautiful golden quinces and never resist painting them. The quince keep until and give off a lovely sent in my studio. I decided on a baking theme for this Christmas picture and included another of my favourite things, a treacle tin, in festive red and gold.

MARIETTE VOKE ARTIST

“I started out with drawing, and I’ve always been an artist. I trained in ceramics in Cornwall. Living and working are closely linked at Golden Valley Cottage, an unconventional but satisfying rural life. Painting starts for me at coffee time. I’m usually working on two paintings,  one that I paint standing up , an oil painting on the easel, and one sitting down, perhaps a smaller watercolour. I paint all day to a background of Radio Four, Six Music, cds, and records, interspersed with coffee and tea”.