When a Hollywood actor wandered into her studio and asked for lessons, artist Lynne Gougeon was a bit taken aback.<\/p>\n
David Bradley, perhaps best known for his roles in Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, had recently moved to Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, and decided to find a new way to express his creativity.<\/p>\n
“I was just very impressed with her as a person and clearly she was passionate about what she did,” Bradley explained. “I said, ‘do you teach?'”<\/p>\n
“And she said yes. I said, ‘can I have a go?’<\/p>\n
Having never painted, not even in school, the 84-year-old had to begin with the basics.<\/p>\n
“He couldn’t manage the paintbrush on the first lesson, I don’t think,” Gougeon said, although “he took to it straight away”. <\/p>\n
“I think, if you’ve never painted before, then you learn very quickly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a Hollywood actor wandered into her studio and asked for lessons, artist Lynne Gougeon was a bit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}