Born on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and raised in the small fishing village of Wachapreague, VA, Ann always had a love for art. Not until the late 1990’s was she able to release the passion within.

“Each piece of my work is of an emotional passion”. “I’m always interested in capturing the unexpected.”

With a combination of cheerful colors and varying strokes, Ann turns blank canvas into abstract representations of her surroundings and her emotions. She loves the Chesapeake Bay, and likes to convey the tranquility of the water in her work. “I hope to convey a happiness, a mood, a peacefulness.”

She has been painting since the first class she took at age 10. “It’s something I always wanted to do.” She dabbled in artwork, but never was able to pursue it full time. After moving to Maryland’s Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in 1995, she was able to seriously start pursuing her dream in creating her art.

Ann’s work reflects the local landscape as well as distant and diverse places she has traveled to such as Carces en Provence, Belize, Sweden and Australia.

Ann continually refine’s her creative senses by merging color, line and figure. She often paints without specific subject matter and often integrates special materials to generate powerful artistic statements.

Her art conveys an obvious mood through creative use of color and paint application that force viewer’s to draw upon their own imaginations.

Ann has studied under several well-known abstract artists in the Washington, DC area for the past 9 years and feels most influenced by instructor Joyce McCarten.

Ann's Work

Apple Martini Time III

Journey

Summer Heat

Surface