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Anne Toms Artist

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    The Early Years​

    1965 - 1975

    In which I discovered London's great public art galleries and pressed my nose against windows in Cork Street.

     

    A decade in which I learned to draw at evening classes and summer school at the City of Guids Art College in Kennington, experimented with various media and sold my first works for a pittance to buy more paint.

    Various Early Influences/some of the paintings I fell in love with when in my late teens I first  discovered the London galleries and their amazing collections
    Paul Cezanne
    Paul Cezanne
    One of the most powerful experiences of my life was when I first came face to face with this painting at the Courtauld Institute in London in the 1960's. I was transfixed. It is always with me somewhere in my mind when I am painting.
    Roger de Grey
    Roger de Grey
    So quietly honest
    Berthe Morisot by Edouard Manet
    Berthe Morisot by Edouard Manet
    I began wanting to paint portraits after seeing this painting, which I painstakingly copied several times before starting to paint directly from the model
    JohnSingerSargent
    JohnSingerSargent
    Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
    Sickert
    Sickert
    Low, rich, bleeding colour that stays in the senses
    Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
    Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
    It was the light that stirred devotion
    & Some of My Very Early Works  (youthful pre-occupation with love & romance)
    The Leaving
    The Leaving
    oil on stretched canvas
    The Persuit
    The Persuit
    oil on canvas board
    Night
    Night
    Ink - pen and wash (behind glass)
    sketches in ochre and alizarin
    sketches in ochre and alizarin
    oil on stretched canvas
    Summer Lovers
    Summer Lovers
    mixed media on stretched canvas
    After Dark 1
    After Dark 1
    oil on stretched canvas
    The River
    The River
    mixed media on stretched canvas

    CONTACT ME - annetomsartist@gmail.com  IW, UK England

    click here for link to Yarmouth Gallery where I show my paintings>