Ann Palmer

Ann paints land, sky and seascapes, often working directly out of doors in front of the scene. Ann brings her sketches back and composes them, collaging them into a large sketchbook for reference. Her larger paintings are developed in the studio from her experiences en plein air, sketches, notes and photographs.

Ann lives in Rochester in the South East of England. She has a doctorate in public health medicine and worked for the NHS for 40 years. She paints at home in her Garden Studio and in Studio One at Nucleus Arts in Chatham. She has been drawing and painting from 2007, taking up oils 12 years ago, and recently developing her practice with mixed media aiming to produce more abstract and exciting work.

Ann gains inspiration from her travels to the coasts of Cornwall as well as her home county of Kent. She developed her reputation as a plein air painter; working in the vineyards of the Loire Valley and around the Kent Coast where she worked out of a beach hut in Whitstable until joining Nucleus Arts in Chatham, Kent. Ann now has a studio in Rochester at the Halpern Pop Gallery and Nucleus Cafe where she exhibits; she also works from home painting in her conservatory and using her Attic Studio for preparing canvases and f...

Largely self taught Ann has attended local art classes and done a lot of reading and visiting museums and exhibitions; more importantly she has been to a number of master classes, notably with Mike Chaplin, Crawfurd Adamson, Alan Bordier and James Willis.
Ann is inspired by Turner who painted the same east Kent skies and by Kurt Jackson a cornish seascape painter and by Lewis Noble a landscape painter.
Ann gets inspiration from the sea and sky, standing on the beaches of East Kent and Cornwall.

Find Ann's work in the Westgate Galleria near Margate and Eclectic Gallery in Margate Old Town, in West Malling 'the Drawing Rooms' and in Under the Rainbow exhibitions in Kent

Ann will be exhibiting at Bath Art Fair in February and The Show Off Gallery in Whitstable in March.

Ann featured in the Summer Exhibition is La Galleria in Pall Mall Arcade, London 5 mins from Trafalgar Square

Gabriel Fine Arts 16-21 December 2019
Group exhibition with Gabriel Fine Art, 67 York Street, London W1H 1QB

Ann exhibited at the Halpern Summer Show in Chatham and the Winter Show in both Chatham and Rochester. She also held a solo exhibition in the Halpern Pop in Rochester in September 2024.

Ann exhibits annually in the Horsebridge Centre in Whitstable; the next will be a group show in July 2025 and a Solo exhibition in October 2025.

There will be a solo exhibition in the Show Off Gallery in Whitstable at the end of April 2025.

Ann will be exhibiting in the Bath Art Fair in February 2025 and the Untitled Fair in Chelsea Town Hall in September 2025