| "In Chicago my first teacher, Mrs Richardson taught me that colours had to relate to reality, also that I could make any colour I wanted."
"My second teacher, Rudolph Pen taught me that a colour on its own is as dynamic as many colours together. From him I learned about 'singing yellow'.
"By using a whole range of colours and establishing interdependence between the grid and colour I was able to counter the rigidity of the grid. By taking the square and making it not square and by my use of colour I challenged structure."
"My first experiments in abstraction began at five years old. I cut out the pages of dolls and clothes from Women's magazines cutting inside the black lines and made abstract patterns of colours that pleased me."
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For 2005/6 Grace will be donating a percentage from the sale of her work to a charity of her choice. In March 2005 she will be donating work to the Macmillan Nurse Foundation.
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Signed copies of Grace's new book "Once More from the Beginning ...as retold by Grace Gardner" are on sale at the Falmouth Art Gallery or by post at £4.95 plus £1 postage and handling.
 "Did you ever wonder about that little tyke we went to see last Christmas?"
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