Caroline Coates is an artist, illustrator as well as an art and craft tutor, with over 20 years experience of working in community arts and arts development. Caroline is inspired by the people she works with; working across a wide range of art and craft forms using a mixture of traditional and contemporary mediums to tell a story. The aim of her work is to make people smile. Believing learning is a life long journey, Caroline is always trying out new techniques to then share with the groups. As a tutor she loves introducing people to new crafts and art forms, making learning new skills fun and easy. Caroline really enjoys working with the wide range of groups though LifewithArt across the North West.