Penny Barron

I am an enabler passionate about sharing my love of art and nature with everyone by encouraging them to explore their own creativity.

With a background in health and education my hero has always been clown doctor Patch Adams.

https://www.patchadams.org/patch-adams/. He was accused of being “excessively happy something I strive to be as I always believed that being happiness makes the world a better place.

A grandmother too I am known as Nonna because of my Italian links I travel extensively with my flowery van across the UK and Europe running art-workshops and storytelling with my own stories under the umbrella of NANANDVAN.

My grandchildren play a big part in both my writing and my art, as a catalyst for ideas, and many of their pictures are used in my illustrations too.

“Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing”

Rajneesh