Ann’s Journal
Online Exhibition 2025
I recently had an exhibition in my Devonshire studio. I love putting paintings on the walls of my workspace to share with visitors, as most of my artwork is inspired by where I live and the surrounding environment. When we moved here, we had no idea what this part of...
South West Academy
South West Academy Ann has recently been elected academician and member of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. The Academy is dedicated to advancing the creation and appreciation of art in the South West of Britain. Her first exhibition with the group...
Award winning Artist!
I was surprised and delighted to win ‘The James Fletcher Watson Award’ for best use of watercolour in the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London in March 2025. The award was presented for my painting ‘Woodland...
How time flies!
I am amazed how quickly time flies by and I realise I have neglected my website journal. It’s rainy here today and a perfect opportunity to catch up with recent events. My new book ‘Poetic Woods’ was published in September last year and I am thrilled to say that it...
New book – ‘Poetic Woods: Experimental watercolour and collage’
Published by Batsford on September 14th 2023 Available to order at : https://amzn.to/41RaW6O Excerpt from back Jacket: ‘Through tangled copse and mysterious thicket, to glorious autumn leaves and dazzling summer glades, discover how to capture the secrets of the...
Our Magical Garden
Our Magical Garden Our garden is a nature reserve and is kept just this side of wildness. I am still uncovering small stone walls and steps, peeling back years of ivy to make discoveries, even though we have lived here for over two years. The seasonal flowering of...
Award-winning painting
Ann was awarded the Megan Fitzoliver prize at the recent Royal Institute of Watercolours exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London for her work ‘Gorse’. The artwork was created with water-based mixed media and included the dried prickles from the gorse bush it...
Creativity through Nature – May 13th. 2021
What a year this has been! I do hope you have all weathered the storm and found solace in art and nature. It has been an eventful year for me and because of this there has not been chance to write more frequent blog entries. During the first ‘lockdowns’ I was...
Devonshire Days
As I have mentioned before- we moved to a house in Devon in November 2020 that is a renovation project – the day before lockdown and here we are in lockdown again! However, government guidelines allow the builders to still come and work- and there is plenty of work to...
I’ve Moved House!
Finally .. We have moved house and relocated to the wilds of Devon near the river and sea. The house is tucked away down narrow lanes dripping with ferns and hopefully studded with primroses in the Spring. The garden is full of ponds and trees, camellias and...
A strange spring time
Well - it's Spring . The birds are singing furiously in my garden. The primroses and hellebores are flowering. The trees are in bud. The sun is shining in a cloudless blue sky.It is hard to imagine that unseen covid-19 clouds hang noiselessly around the garden,...
Sketching in China
It is crazy how time has just whizzed by. I cannot believe that my last post was when I came back from my trip to China. That experience felt like a personal cross roads - travelling to the other side of the world with people I had not met before and not...