COLOUR and imagination have been used to illustrate the joys of life in a local artist's solo exhibit.

Glenys Ratcliffe said she had little interest in creating art before a close brush with death changed everything.

"I just had to paint. There was no two ways about it," she said. "I had never painted before, but I was craving it.

"It gave me a new life."

Ratcliffe used painting as a way to pr...