ANN PALMER

Artist

Ann Palmer works out of Studio One in B Block at Chatham Nucleus Arts; where Ann paints in oils; when the weather is good Ann can be found drawing in the High Street or by the Cathedral. Ann also works from home painting in her garden studio and using her Attic Studio for preparing canvases and framing and storing her work.

Studio One has two exhibition walls constituting a permanent and ever changing show of some of Ann’s work. Visitors to Chatham are encouraged to visit the studio when Ann is in, here they can meet Ann and see her at work; there are cards and prints to purchase as well as any available artwork.

Ann is known for her series of shoreline, sea and skyscape paintings around the Kent Coast and Cornwall. This series depicts the beaches of Whitstable on the north coast of Kent and in Cornwall, at various times of day and year, state of the tide and weathers inspired by Ann’s experience painting on the beach. The series has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Whitstable and Rochester. Ann is now preparing for various exhibitions through the spring and summer and working towards a Solo Exhibition with Gabriel Arts in Tower 42, Bank.

Ann builds her own canvases using stretcher bars and 12oz cotton duck which she primes with 2-3 coats of acrylic primer and/or gesso. She usually coats the prepared canvas with turpsy red oil paint, often Indian red, sometimes Burnt Siena. When this is dry she lays out the scene with a thin coat of oil paints then building on this, firstly using a brush, then thick oil paint applied with a palette knife. The extent to which the painting is built with more impasto depends on the scene and mood. Ann’s style is impressionistic, representative tending towards some abstraction and expressionism.

Ann exhibits in the Halpern Gallery in Chatham and the Halpern Pop in Rochester; she also has an exhibition wall in the Eclectic Art Gallery in Margate Old Town near the Turner Contemporary and Ann can sometimes be found in the Gallery stewarding. Ann’s work is in exhibitions internationally, in Rome and Turin .

Ann will be participating in South East Open Studios from her home studio, and in Medway Open Studios with her Solo exhibition in the Halpern POP Gallery in Rochester where she will have a solo exhibition from 28 June - July 11.