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Arthritis is no bar to artistry for Maeve
Maeve Chaple (Pictures: Alexander Caminada, 01453 758290, Gloucestershire County Council Adult Continuing Education & Training Service)
Grandmother Maeve Chaple discovered her artistic side. (Picture: Alexander Caminada)

Maeve Chaple discovered a colourful new world when she joined an art class.

Her efforts have won her a nomination for an outstanding adult learner award.

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+ Adult Learners鈥 Week, runs from Saturday May 11 to Friday May 17.
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sees thousands of events nationwide celebrating adult learning and is a great opportunity for people to turn lifelong ambitions into reality.
+ Adult Learners鈥 Week is celebrating its 鈥淭en Years On鈥 anniversary in 2002 with more chances than ever to take part.
+ This year the week also leads people into a month long opportunity to take a 鈥楤ite Size鈥 chunk of learning through May and June.
+ There will be events in town centres, shopping centres, libraries, pubs, schools and colleges.
+ Festivals, taster classes, street theatre and roadshows will give everyone the opportunity to get a taste for learning at a time, pace and place that suits.

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Grandmother Maeve Chaple says her life turned technicolour when she discovered hidden artistic talents.

Four heart attacks, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis have failed to dampen Maeve鈥檚 zest for life.

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I would say to anyone thinking about going back into learning: just do it.
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Outstanding Adult Learner award nominee Maeve Chaple.

Six years ago, 61-year-old Maeve, from Moreton-in-Marsh, joined the Stow Disability Association, a thriving community organisation based at Adlestrop Village Hall, and it was there she learned to paint.

She says: "Suddenly the world became technicolour."

Maeve has progressed at an astonishing rate. Her tutor Ann Edwards says: "Her drawing skills are excellent despite the discomfort in her hands from arthritis.

"She has embraced her new found skills with such joy and enthusiasm, it is truly inspiring."

Maeve says: "I was so active before I was ill, I was determined not to just sit and vegetate. If it hadn鈥檛 been for the SDA, it would have been difficult for me, and for many others, to get a life.

"I would say to anyone thinking about going back into learning: just do it."

She is now the Stow Disability Association鈥檚 treasurer and transport manager, organising the organisation鈥檚 minibus which serves the Cotswold villages.

She says: "The art Ann has taught us has been amazing. I used to draw when I was at school but I was no good at painting.

"Now my children argue over which of my pictures to have. My granddaughter Charlotte is 10, and she thinks I am so clever 鈥 it鈥檚 a good feeling."

Members of the SDA sell their paintings and quilted cards to raise funds for the association and to keep their mini-bus going. "It鈥檚 a lifeline for disabled people," says Maeve.



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