Kipling, Ann

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Kipling, Ann

firstName

Ann

lastName

Kipling

Biography

"Ann Kipling is a Canadian artist who creates impressionistic portraits and landscapes on paper from direct observation. Kipling's distinctive style of overlapping, temporally suggestive linework is formed through her working process, which involves drawing her subject over time, recording subtle shifts in movement in the sitter or landscape during that period. Her work is characterized by a flat sense of space, where lines are used to frame a vibrating and gestural idea of her subject, rather than a direct representation of form. While not directly connected to any art movement in particular, connections can be made to Chinese landscape painters and the watercolours of Paul Cézanne. Using colour minimally, her primary media is etching, drawing, watercolours, pen, pencil, pastels and pencil crayons. She lives and works in Falkland, BC, a location which serves as a focus for her recent landscapes."

Date of Birth

1934

Education

1955-1960 - Emily Carr University of Art and Design (was then the Vancouver School of Art)

Title

Kipling, Ann