A YOUNG artist, who came to the attention of Parrot Mouth at Sir Peter O’Sullevan’s charity fundraising lunch, is Michelle McCullagh from the west county in England. If you’re visiting London before Christmas call into her next exhibition Horses In Motion at the Chart Gallery, 62 Old Church Street, London, SW3 6DP between November 18th-23rd.

Riding and drawing horses came hand in hand for Michelle from an early age and are now a living obsession in her daily life. Michelle’s work is inspired by her life drawings: “You cannot ask an animal to stand still like you can a human being. They are continually moving, swishing a tail, twitching an ear or scratching a leg. Drawings have to be quick, spontaneous and confident.