Artist Profile
Ann Ardron MA (Oxon), MSC
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Ann is an award-winning professional artist, with paintings in private collections at home and abroad. Her work focuses on the natural world, with trees, woodland, coastlines and water as recurrent themes.
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Exhibitions and Awards
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Ann’s work has won several awards and is regularly shown in exhibitions and galleries:
Bankside Gallery, RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition, 2012
A&I Artist of the Year Competition - second prize, 2011
Royal Society of Marine Artists Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2011
Society of Women Artists Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2010
SAA Artist of the Year Competition - category winner, London, 2010
Patchings Festival Shortlist, Nottingham, 2010
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Inspiration
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Ann’s work is inspired by her love of landscape and nature. She spends a good deal of time outdoors, and finds herself endlessly attracted to the beauty of the natural world. In her paintings, she tries to show more than “just” the view, by striving to convey such aspects as mood, light, weather and time of day.
Ann often portrays local scenes, especially the Nene Valley and surrounding countryside, but she is also motivated by her travels in the UK and abroad. Orkney, the Lake District, Italy and New Zealand often feature in her paintings, with trees, forests and water as recurrent themes.
Recently, she has included compositions that focus in on a particular detail from the landscape, rather than the whole scene. These works include her Water Reflections series, where she strives to represent the complex visual appearance of the water’s surface.
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Method
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Ann paints mainly in acrylic, oils and watercolour. Although she works mainly in her studio, she believes that the most important element for a successful painting is to have spent some time in the location herself, getting a real feel for the landscape, light and weather.
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