Calm before the Storm Print

Ann works in OILS principally land, sky and seascapes, often working directly out of doors in front of the scene. Her larger paintings are developed in the studio from her experiences en plein air, sketches and photographs. Ann has a doctorate in public health medicine and worked for the NHS for 40 years. She lives in Rochester, UK and paints at home and in Studio One at Nucleus Arts in Chatham. She has been drawing and painting from 2007, taking up oils 12 years ago. 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 framing and storing her work. Currently Ann is working on a series of shoreline, sea and skyscape paintings around the Kent Coast and Cornwall. Ann builds her own canvases using stretcher bars and 12oz cotton duck. then prime it with 3 coats of acrylic primer and/or gesso. She usually coats the canvas with turpsy red, often Indian red, sometimes Burnt Siena. When this is dry she lays out the scene with a thin coat of oil paints then building on this, firstly using a brush, then thick oil paint applied with a palette knife. The extent to which the painting is built with more impasto depends on the scene and mood. Ann’s style is impressionistic, representative tending towards some abstraction and expressionism. Please note there may be a delay in fulfilling a sale due to covid restrictions