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 |  | Ann Brain is a Coventry-born painter who is now based in Bilton, Rugby.
Talking about her work, Ann said: "Art is a mysterious and risky business. I try to look at the world through innocent eyes and paint from the heart, and I hope that people will approach my work with similarly open eyes and minds."
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Ann has built on her Coventry College of Art education to create a broad local influence, through shows, publications and art classes.
Her oil paintings hang in collections in the UK, Europe and America.
She is currently working on the theme of 'Nightfall', as some of the images in the gallery here show.
Click the images button below to launch the online gallery, showing some of Ann's paintings.
Doughnuts, allsorts and tulips
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Ann records objects very realistically, as her Custrad Doughnut, Allsorts and Pink Tulip paintings (in the online gallery) show.
In 2002 she, and fellow artist Helen Bone, were awarded an exhibition in Rugby Art Gallery, which was very well received, and in 2003 she won the Purchase Prize at the Rugby Open.
A number of her works have been reproduced as cards, prints and illustrations.
Local roots
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Ann was born in Coventry and grew up in the surrounding area of leafy Warwickshire. She went to Coventry College of Art and graduated with a degree in Fine Art in 1966.
She now works full-time as a professional artist, giving talks and demonstrations as well as teaching her own adult education art classes.
She has exhibited with the Royal Academy six times, with work that has been described as "unsettling".
Broad influence
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Ann exhibits at the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery in London, the Gallery Upstairs in Henley and The Gallery, Dunchurch.
Making the most of local art netwroks, she is a member of the Association of Midland Artists, the Tantalus Project, Leamington Studio Artists and Rugby and District Art Society.
Find out more about some of these groups by following the links on the left.
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Ann also holds an Open Studio every other year as part of Warwickshire Arts Week. Her studio will be open as part of the arts week in 2004.
Further information
For details about exhibitions, sales or for further information, contact Ann using the email link on the left.
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