I am interested in the ever changing, shrinking landscape around me. After capturing the essence of a particular place with my camera, I translate the image to canvas via charcoal, turp, varnish, stand oil and pigments. Although I like to name place my paintings, they more than likely convey a feeling rather than place recognition. As I get lost in the process of painting, my work in the final analysis is about paint and the application thereof.

Many of the landscapes I have painted have changed immensely. A cow pasture in Connecticut no longer has cows. That bucolic scene has given way to new home and landscaping expansion. Other scenic routes in Virginia and Maryland have changed due to road widening projects for more vehicles. Climate change has added to the ever evolving landscape by flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and other natural and human disasters. Just as our lives are in flux, so, too, is the landscape.

The Hudson River Valley artists left a record of the 19th century landscape, and I continue in that lineage recording the landscapes of my time. My paintings are a historical permanent account of the 21st century landscape and the feeling of those landscapes.

"...H. K. Anne's muscularly expressionistic oil of a gnarled tree rising as sinuously as one Egon Schiele's figures out of packed snow..."

Gallery & Studio (The World of the Working Artist)
June/July/August, 2006, Vol. 8 No. 5.
New York

Born: Indianapolis, Indiana

EDUCATION:

Master of Fine Arts in Painting: Western Connecticut State University, May, 2006

Bachelor of Arts: Sarah Lawrence College, 1995 (Focus on Studio Arts and 19th Century European Art History)

Associate Degree: Indiana University, 1982

Docent, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1976-1990


CURRENT:

Studio Artist Member of the Workhouse Arts Center, a program of the Lorton Arts Foundation, February 2009 to present.

Member of College Art Association (CAA) since 2005. Participated in 2007 Boston Symposium.


AWARDS:

Vermont Studio Center, Artist's Award, Johnson, VT, February – March 2011.

EXHIBITIONS:

10th Anniversary Celebration for Lorton Arts Foundation, October 2011.

Fairfax Symphony Orchestra Auction, February 2011.

Washington Post, Real Art DC, 2010.

Walker-Whitman Clinic, exhibit and auction to fight AIDS, Washington, D.C., November 2010.

International Arts & Artists, Washington. D.C., October 2010.

Flying Monkey Art Gallery, "Response to the Oil Spill," Huntsville, AL, September 2010.

"Visual Response to Gulf Oil Disaster," Landslide Gallery, The Foster Collective, Chicago, IL, July 23
through August 13, 2010.

Lorton Arts Foundation, "Greenspiration" exhibition, Lorton, VA, May-June, 2010.

Fairfax Symphony's Women in the Arts Project with "Virginia Minds Wide Open” program, May 2010.

Fairfax Council of Arts "Art in the Workplace" solo exhibit at LMI in Tysons Corner, VA, January-April, 2010.

"Living Gallery," Annmarie Gardens (associated with the Smithsonian Institution). Artist in residence and exhibition, Solomons, MD, January - February 2010.

"Art for Life" exhibit and auction, Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington, D.C., November, 2009.

7th Annual "Something Hot," Juried Show and Sale, Gallery 222, Leesburg, VA, August, 2008.

Juried show “Fall Into the Arts" Festival by Rehau, Leesburg, VA, September, 2007.

Juried show, Kent Art Association, Kent, CT, July, 2006.

Western Connecticut State University MFA Thesis Show, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, July, 2006 and Warner Hall, Danbury, Connecticut, May, 2006.

Juried show “Country Life, the Farm,” Silo Gallery of Hunt Hill Farm, New Milford, CT, February, 2006 and November, 2005.

Jane Goodall Institute Symposium, Western Connecticut State University, 2005.

Juried show, Arts Society of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library, August, 2005.

Sarah Lawrence College Alumni Show, Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Bronxville, NY, June, 2005.

Western Connecticut State University MFA show, Alumni Hall, Danbury, CT, May, 2005.

Photographer's Forum Magazine's 25th Annual College Photography Contest, Finalist selection.