Anne-Marie

After a foundation in art, Anne-Marie gained a degree in fashion design and enjoyed a successful career in fashion for over 20 years.  Owning a design consultancy with her (Menswear designer) husband,  Anne-Marie designed Womenswear for various luxury brands.  

This design discipline and aesthetic vision influences Anne-Marie's artworks;  both in use of colour and stylish subject matter.  A palette of muted greys and timeless black and white are enlivened with bright accents and the occasional flash of neon.  The textures of lace and the smoothness of glass are rendered in acrylics;  her preferred medium.  She is as much inspired by Vermeer as she is Rene Gruau...  in her artwork the dramatic darkness and strong light capturing the translucency of glass are influenced by the Dutch masters, while the graphic style and spatial awareness come from studying the great fashion illustrators.
  
In the same way a perfume can evoke a memory, a painting can capture emotion, and Anne-Marie paints the things she loves and the beauty she sees in the everyday. Her paintings are feminine and sensual, a commentary on her life as a woman.  


Exhibitions/Awards

Affordable Art Fair, Battersea/Hampstead - Gallery represented 2024, 2025, 2026

Fresh Art Fairs Uk - Gallery represented 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Chelsea Arts Society annual exhibition - June 2024

UK Parliamentary Society of Arts – Medal of Excellence for artistic achievement, June 2022

Mall Galleries, London - Society of Women artists 160th  annual exhibition Sept 2021

South West Academy of fine & applied arts, 'Reflections' 4 Nov- 11 Dec 2020

Making Matters, Farnham -Group exhibition for craft month, October 2020

Mall Galleries, London - Society of Women artists 159th annual exhibition online  Sept 2020

Mall Galleries, London - Society of Women artists 158th annual exhibition 25-29th Sept 2019

Jackson's Art  'People's choice award' 2019 for painting 'cocktail hour' 

Oko:Art Gallery, Guildford - Group exhibition 13-22nd April 2019

Mall Galleries, London - Society of Women artists 157th annual exhibition 25-30th Sept 2018

Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway  - Broadway arts festival  8-17 June 2018

Mall Galleries, London - Society of Women artists 156th annual exhibition 5th-9th July 2017

Gallery representation


Prints available via artrepublic.com


Originals from:

Cloud Gallery fine Art - Brighton, Horsham, Chichester and Worthing

Adamo Gallery - Cardiff

No Naked Walls - Guildford

Athertongreen Art - Alton

Deep West Gallery Online

Education

Ravensbourne University, London- Ba Hons Fashion/Apparel design 1990-1993
University of the Creative Arts, Farnham - Foundation studies diploma  1989-1990