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.

LIFE EXPERIENCE:

My career as an artist has been a meandering journey. I began painting at eighteen years of age at the Southside Art Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. My friend, Roberta (who died much too young) convinced me that I should join her and Dusty and Trover and Hygar. We paid one dollar and painted from 6 PM until we were blurry-eyed around 10 or 11 PM. I once painted oil on canvas board using one whole tube of white and one whole tube of burnt umber in one night…just like icing a cake.

Roberta and I decided to get serious so we signed up for lessons at the Eastside Art Center, still in Indianapolis. Adele Wendell showed us how to prepare our canvas for painting. We painted the proverbial still life set up in a cardboard box with a green glass bottle, artificial flowers and drapery in the background – Christmas presents for our families.

As I worked as a secretary in the Indiana Department of Revenue, Governor's campaign headquarters, Governor's office and then a legal secretary at an Indianapolis law firm, I continued to keep my interest in art alive. I took drawing and painting college credit and non-credit classes at John Herron Art School, and the Indianapolis Art League. I received an associate degree from Indiana University at Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1982.

My interest in art history was satisfied by my becoming a docent at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. I was a facilitator for children's art tours for fifteen years.

In 1995, I received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. My focus was on nineteenth century European Art History and studio arts, including ceramic figure sculpture, painting, drawing and photography. I studied with Nancy Bowen, ceramic artist, and Mary Delahoyd, art historian.

In May, 2006, I completed my MFA in Painting at Western Connecticut State University. I studied with Margaret Grimes, John Wallace, Marjorie Portnow and Robert Alberetti. In addition, I studied photography with John Kane.

I participated in a workshop at Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York; studied with Nancy Bowen (ceramic sculpture) and Marjorie Portnow (painting) at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Born: Indianapolis, Indiana

EDUCATION:

Associate Degree: Indiana University, 1982

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

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

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.

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


EXHIBITIONS:

"The Four Seasons of Oatlands" at Oatlands Plantation, Leesburg, Virginia 2009.

Sarah Lawrence College Alumni Show at the Heimbold Visual Arts Center, 2009.

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

Leesburg, Virginia's "Fall Into the Arts" Festival, September, 2007 sponsored by Rehau.

Western Connecticut State University MFA Thesis Show at Prince Street Gallery, New York, New York, July, 2006.

Kent Art Association, July, 2006, held in Kent, Connecticut.

Western Connecticut State University Thesis Show at Warner Hall, WCSU, Danbury, Connecticut, May, 2006.

Jane Goodall Institute Symposium held at Western Connecticut State University (WCSU) in 2005. My Connecticut landscape is now in the London office of Ms. Goodall's assistant.

WCSU MFA show in Alumni Hall in May, 2005.

Sarah Lawrence College Alumni Show at the Heimbold Visual Arts Center in June, 2005.

Arts Society of Old Greenwich, Ct., in August, 2005 at the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich Library.

“Country Life, the Farm” at the Silo Gallery of Hunt Hill Farm in New Milford, Ct. November, 2005.

“Country Life, the Woods” held at the Silo Gallery of Hunt Hill Farm in New Milford, Ct., February, 2006.

Finalist selection group of Photographer's Forum Magazine's 25th Annual College Photography Contest. My photograph appeared in the Best of College Photography Annual 2005.

Internship at J. Alden Weir Farm, Wilton, CT, in the fall of 2005/spring of 2006. I interviewed and photographed artists: wrote articles in the newspapers: helped with children's art tours and classes: and distributed information and assisted the staff with sales for the Jazz fundraiser.


PUBLICATIONS:

"...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