Ann Blockley RI
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Statement
Ann Blockley RI SWA is a renowned watercolour and mixed-media artist with an individual style developed over a lifetime of professional painting. Her pictures are evocative, atmospheric and intuitive. Her long-standing passion is for nature, inspired by the countryside and gardens close to her studio. Her pictures are evocative, atmospheric and intuitive capturing an elusive air of mystery and magic within Nature that lies tantalisingly between reality and the imagined. She is continually exploring, experimenting, and re-evaluating her work and is becoming increasingly interested in more natural, alternative ways to create art.
Methodology
Her artistic practice embraces a range of materials and techniques chosen to express the unique interpretations of nature that are her signature themes. Ann has made several films and has written numerous books on her painting methods.
Memberships
Ann’s work is collected extensively across the globe and she writes for British and international art magazines. She is a member of both the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI) and the Society of Women artists (SWA), who both hold their annual exhibitions at The Mall Galleries in London. She is also a member of The Arborealists, a diverse group of artists who value trees, forests and a connection with nature, exhibiting in venues and galleries around UK and France. Ann’s late father was the inspirational artist, John Blockley RI PPPS RWA.