Oil paintings inspired by landscapes and seascapes by

ANNE ALLANSON

INTRODUCTION

Anne now lives in Welwyn and shortly will be moving to Norwich. She was born in Staffordshire but has spent most of her life in Warwickshire before moving to the London area in 1962.

Anne was trained as an architectural draughts person and has worked for some of the world's leading architects such as Sir Basil Spence in London and Walter Gropius in Cambridge and Massachusetts in the USA.

Since finishing her fine art degree at the University of Hertfordshire in 1986, she has divided her time between teaching and painting. She has taught at various colleges and at the University of Hertfordshire.

Anne has exhibited widely over the past twenty years in London including the Royal Academy for two years and the Odette Gilbert Gallery in Cork Street. Other galleries include the Contemporary Art Fair at the Business Design Centre, the Hertfordshire and Leicestershire exhibitions for Schools and Colleges and the Galleri Excentrisk in Denmark. She has had eight solo exhibitions and is represented in public collections such as Glaxo International Ltd., Frigoscandia Ltd., Atrium Showrooms, Hatfield Business Park and the Fielder Centre. Her work is in private collections in England, Denmark, Germany and Bermuda.

STATEMENT

Anne's main concerns in painting are the special effects of our environment, mainly landscape. Whatever the starting point or reference, the process is one of building; being alert to suggestions offered by chance or accident, deciding what to keep and what to destroy.

"I make sculptures and assemblages which in turn influence the painting. My preferred medium is paint.

I find it exciting to explore colour for its creative possibilities and spacial effects. It is interesting to empty space of inessentials and then articulate it through abstracted colour and space. The various areas stand for preferences, experiences, memories and feelings as well as the external references.

The final decisions may be seen as a formal arrangement of line and colour, visual contrasts and spacial relationships, but also I hope to convey a certain structural vitality and maybe even touch a nerve or two."

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