All her life, Penny Stanway has drawn and painted, encouraged early on by her father (John Rench, a teacher and artist) and by art teachers at school, and more recently by her sister (Jenny Hare, therapist, writer and artist), her husband (Andrew Stanway, doctor, writer and natural 'creative') and various ad-ed art teachers. As a doctor Penny has written more than 20 books on health (plus several on food and cooking) but in latter years has focused increasingly on art in general and on painting in particular. She has painted in southwest Ireland, with John Simpson as her teacher, and in London on her houseboat on the Thames. The insights she has gained have fuelled a wave of energy, enthusiasm and realizations about the creative process which she shares with the reader in Free Your Inner Artist.