ANNE DREWRY

After teaching at the elementary and middle school levels for twenty-one years, I decided to explore the world of water media, which has always fascinated me. Color intrigues me, and creating interesting combinations of color is a challenge and a delight. I paint because I love to experiment with the pigments, with various shapes, and with textures on the paper; the spontaneity of water media produces unexpected and wonderful effects. Combining various mediums – watercolor, acrylic, pencils, crayons, collage papers, found objects, texture mediums, iridescent, pearlescent, and metallic paints – produces effects which complement each other and create often vibrant, sometimes subtle, and always different appearances. Experimentation with a variety of materials is always exciting and often surprising. The resulting “happy accidents” are often the highlights of a painting.

Studying with a number of nationally known artists has provided me with inspiration as well as with technique, with enthusiasm, and with a keen desire to continue exploring the many possibilities one has within this multifaceted medium. Although most of my work is non-representational, I enjoy using photos from my travels as references for beginnings. These starts can lead to an abstract interpretation of somewhere I have visited or become a more realistic depiction in a semi-abstract painting. As I continue to produce new paintings, I continue to explore and combine new techniques and materials with old while always striving to expand my areas of expertise and create something new and unusual