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Ann was born and raised on the exotic Caribbean Island of Tobago, a tropical island with coconut palm lined white sand beaches, where she first ventured into creating watercolors accentuated with pen and ink.
She studied in Barbados, another Caribbean island, and was fascinated by the fabric arts that were created there, using hot wax, chanting tools, and Procion dyes in a ‘batik’ procedure that inspired her to start creating art on fabric.
Moving to Maui, Hawai’i from Canada where she went to college, she took up Silk Painting with hot wax as the resist and French dyes, as well as creating delicate watercolors with pen and ink. She combined this with her love of scuba diving and used "artistic license" to create wildly colorful and fun marine life in her line of cards and prints. Turtles are a treasure since her childhood, where she watched them hatch on the hot sand and head to the ocean, and swam with them often while snorkeling.
Ann has been inspired to integrate psychology and art, creating more value to her work with the purpose of having her collectors mental health in mind. It is about being mindful to keep the relaxed, excited, and good feelings experienced on vacation alive on their return home with art to trigger those memories and a dopamine fix often.
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Life on the Islands and around Lahaina...
Ann uses Hot Wax as a Resist, and French Dyes on Silk, stretched on a framr to create her Colorful Silk Paintings.
Beach time is often a time for Ann to creatine Delicate Small Watercolors with Pen and Ink accents . These are her specialty.
Hot wax is used to cover the finished painting, it is refrigerated, then cracked and then a darker dye is added over top of the wax seeping into the cracks this gives the Batik a 'crackle' look..
Hawaiian green sea turtles, or honu, are native to Hawaiʻi. They are the largest hard-shelled sea turtle in the world, reaching lengths of four feet and weighing over 300 pounds. Out of the seven types of sea turtle, the Hawaiian green sea turtle is the most common in Hawaiian waters. Ann Taylor Arts has some favorite turtle silk paintings and prints for you to choose from.
Hawaiian green sea turtles, or honu, are native to Hawaiʻi. They are the largest hard-shelled sea turtle in the world, reaching lengths of four feet and weighing over 300 pounds. Out of the seven types of sea turtle, the Hawaiian green sea turtle is the most common in Hawaiian waters. Ann Taylor Arts has some favorite turtle silk paintings and prints for you to choose from.
Hawaiian green sea turtles, or honu, are native to Hawaiʻi. They are the largest hard-shelled sea turtle in the world, reaching lengths of four feet and weighing over 300 pounds. Out of the seven types of sea turtle, the Hawaiian green sea turtle is the most common in Hawaiian waters. Ann Taylor Arts has some favorite turtle silk paintings and prints for you to choose from.
