A David Chandler

David Chandler teaches adults to paint and draw and more than eighty students attend his regular art classes, in Frome and Bath. He has lectured and demonstrated to art societies and groups throughout the UK, is a guest teacher at Dillington House in Somerset and has been leading painting courses in France, Italy and Switzerland since 1999. He has painted on Channel 4, TSW and HTV and is the author and presenter of two DVD tutorials for watercolourists. In 2011, he co-founded Frome Community Education, a Community Interest Company that delivers over forty different leisure courses and workshops to adult learners in the Frome area, attracting nearly seven hundred enrolments during its first year. David also co-wrote the Sony album PROMISED LAND in 1992, has written documentary for Channel 4 (War Heroes), biographical drama and comedy for BBC radio (Woman In Blue, Laughing Gas, Driving To Distraction) and is the writer and presenter of SEEING THINGS, a monthly community radio programme about the visual arts for FromeFM. VIOLET PECK, is his first venture into juvenile fiction.