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 either to represent the complex visual appearance of the water’s surface.
Ann paints mainly in watercolour, acrylic and oils. 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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