Orchard Apples by Ann Blockley

Ann Blockley RI SWA is a renowned watercolour and mixed-media artist with an individual style developed over a lifetime of professional painting. Her pictures are evocative, atmospheric and intuitive. Her longstanding passion has been for nature, inspired by the countryside and gardens close to her Cotswold studio. Ann has a worldwide reputation for her unique interpretations and has written many books on her painting methods and filmed several dvds covering a wide variety of subjects. In later years she has moved from flowers and animals to the landscape with its trees, hedgerows, birds, and wild-flower meadows.

In all her pictures, Ann uses painterly textures, marks and edge values, using watercolour in an expressive, magical style. She stretches the boundaries of the medium, sometimes working on different surfaces to create unconventional textured images and sometimes reconstructing her work into intricate collages. She is continually exploring, experimenting