Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

The next installment of Tallis Steelyard’s latest tale… Previous episodes can be found at (1)Tallis Steelyard’s own blog and those of his friends: (2) Chris Graham at TRSA, (3) Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie, (4) Annette Rochelle Aben, (5) Stevie Turner, (6)  Robbie Cheadle, (7) Suzanne Joshi, (8) Ken Gierke,  (9) Joy Lennick  (10) this post… and you will be able to read the finale chez Tallis.

Belique Drane is a natural artist. As a child she’d used a burnt stick to draw on the white painted walls of the parlour. Her mother, Taffetia, had been entirely unimpressed. Still as Belique grew older she allowed her artistic energies to be channelled to media which didn’t have to be scrubbed down afterwards.

In her early teens she started earning a little money from her painting. Admittedly she was selling pictures of quaint rural cottages…