ABOUT

Anna lives in rural West Sussex, surrounded by the lush beauty of the English countryside.

Anna is entirely self taught. She enjoyed art as a child but it was only in 2006, at the age of 25, that she discovered an innate talent for botanical painting. 

18 months later Anna won an RHS Gold Medal and Best in Show award. Since then Anna’s fresh style has proved popular and her painting career has blossomed.

RESUMÉ

EDUCATION

1998 -2001 - History BA, First Class, University of Nottingham

2002- 2003 - Interactive Media MA, Goldsmiths College

2005-2006  -  Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management, University of Warwick

AWARDS

2006 Dawn Joliffe Botanical Art Bursary by the RHS

June 2007 - RHS Gold Medal and Best Artist in Show Award for series of 20 paintings of the apple tree ‘James Grieve’

October 2011 - Grand Prize Winner in International Artist Magazine for ‘Strawberries Everest’

COLLECTIONS

RHS Lindley Library

Shirley Sherwood Collection of Botanical Art

EXHIBITIONS

Annual stand at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court Palace Flower Shows

10/2008 - Present - Gallery at the Savil Building, Great Windsor Park, Berkshire

2009 - Present  - Art Amatoria, Edinburgh

Sept/Oct 2009 - Pollen: Flowers in Art, Catmose Gallery, Oakham

Aug 2010 - April 2011  - Hidden Treasures at Kew Gardens

Sept 2010 - Surrey Artist of the Year finalists exhibition at New Ashgate Gallery Farnham

April 2011-present - The Drang Gallery, Padstow, Cornwall

PROJECTS

2010- David Austin Roses - commissioned to paint the rose‘The Pilgrim’ for their first ever limited edition print

2010 -West Dean Gardens - Artwork used to promote their 5 annual garden events

2011- David Austin Roses - commissioned to paint the rose ‘’Gertrude Jekyll’

TEACHING

Cranleigh Arts Centre

West Dean College

Field Breaks

Nymans

Nature in Art

RHS Gardens Wisley

RHS Garden Harlow Carr

Savil Garden

PRESS

2007&2008 - Daily Telegraph ‘What to Buy’ guides for the Hampton Court and Chelsea Flower Shows

2010- Artists &Illustrators Magazine - Offering tips on better botanicals

2011 - The Independent on Sunday Art Guide

Oct/November 2011 - Grand Prize Winner - International Artist Magazine

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