Author Nicolas Usherwood explains how Ann Arnold paints scenes that are ‘very much part of her daily life, but seen at a particular and intense moment.’
Whether depicting secret valleys and majestic hills bathed in a golden twilight, or emerald-fringed streams, jewel-like and glistening in the mid-day sun, Ann Arnold’s landscapes are gentle and soft, while radiating a powerful earth magic. ‘I would like my work to reveal interplay between reality and imagination or a juxtaposition of myth and “the ordinary”; the moment when the inner and the outer world collide’ (Ann Arnold)
A former member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists and an Academician at the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, Arnold lives with her husband Graham in a remote part of Shropshire near to the Welsh border – a far-off, romantic place celebrated in the novels and poetry of Mary Webb and AE Houseman, respectively.