8 Dun Cow Close
Brinklow
Warwickshire
CV23 0NZ
Tel : 01788 833517
Ann Brain paints in a distinctive style which conveys a sense of mystery through images of the natural world. Her oil paintings, at times both benign and unsettling, remain in the mind's eye long after other, blander images have been forgotten. Now ten times a Royal Academy exhibitor, her paintings hang in collections in the UK, Europe and America.
Ann was born in Coventry and grew up in the surrounding area of leafy Warwickshire. She attended Coventry College of Art, where she was taught by Terry Frost, and Michael Sandle, gaining a degree in Fine Art in 1966, before going on to a post-graduate course at London University Institute of Education, followed by a successful teaching career. She has been working as a professional artist since 1998.
Ann exhibits at the Gallery at Dunchurch near Rugby. She is a founder member and former chairman of Rugby Artists' Support Group, and a member of Leamington Studio Artists, The Tantalus Project and Rugby and District Art Society as well as the Association of Midland Artists. A number of her works have been reproduced as greetings cards and prints and she is represented by the Bridgeman Art Library, the leading source of fine art images.
"Art is a mysterious business. I try to look at the world with innocent eyes and paint from the heart, and I hope that people will approach my work with similarly open eyes and minds."
Curriculum Vitae
2008 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; Warwickshire Artsweek
2007 Rugby Open; Oil painting award - Rugby & District Art Society; Leamington Studio Artists/Association of Midland Artists joint exhibition, Warwickshire College
2006 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; Warwickshire Artsweek
2005 Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London; The Gallery, Dunchurch
2004 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London; 'Six Decades' - Floor One Gallery, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum; Warwickshire Artsweek - open studio; The Gallery, Dunchurch
2003 Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London; Rugby Open - painting bought for the Borough Council Collection
2002 'Abstraction/Realism - What's Your Taste' - Community Space exhibition with Helen Bone, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum; Rugby Open; Warwickshire Artsweek - open studio; The Gallery, Dunchurch
2001 Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London; The Gallery Upstairs, Henley-in-Arden; Rugby Open
200 Llewellyn-Alexander Gallery, London; Warwickshire Artsweek - open studio; Originals Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold
Paintings this page Copyright © 2010 Ann Brain