Anna lives in the village of Shamley Green in Surrey and grew up in rural West Sussex, surrounded by the lush beauty of the English countryside. Nature inspires her art and her paintings show us its beauty in all its perfection.
With her unusual use of close-up and composition Anna takes a modern and contemporary approach to botanical painting.
“Recognising and contemplating the beauty in flowers or fruit is something that people have always enjoyed. But it's something that most of us seldom do. With my realistic style of painting I aim to help people recognise this fundamental beauty, and our relationship with it. It's this that makes botanical painting relevant today - when so many of us are disconnected from nature in our daily lives.”
Anna is entirely self-taught. Having studied History and Interactive Media at university, Anna began botanical painting in her spare time in February 2006 at the age of 25. Anna exhibited for the first time in June 2007 where she was awarded an RHS Gold Medal and Best Botanical Artist In Show for her series of paintings of the apple tree ‘James Grieve’.
Anna’s work is held in the Shirley Sherwood Collection and the RHS’s Lindley Library collection.
