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Anna Woodward

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American painter

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Born
1957
Died
1993
Works
1

Top works

  • The scent of rosewater

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  • Art has always been a big part of my life, I can always remember sitting down and painting and drawing with my sisters, and art would always be spoken about. When I was studying the IB I then realised that all I wanted to do was make art and that’s when I decide to take a gap year and then apply for City and Guilds.
  • I am really inspired by Flora Yuknovich’s work, I think as soon as I arrived at City and Guilds and saw her paintings I feel in love with them. I am also really inspired and fascinated with botanical studies and love visiting Kew Gardens. Within my work I try to bring the loose, bold and dynamic style of Flora’s work alongside the minute details found in floral studies, whilst recreate and transcribing classical mythological paintings.
  • This year I have been looking the play Antigone by Sophocles. At the beginning of my project I tried to find as many classical painting representations of the play and then I work from these paintings to create my own work.
  • I am really interested in the beauty of these paintings and the dark tales that they often depict, and this battle between aesthetic beauty against the dark truth of human behaviours.
  • I have just completed my degree series which I have been working on in lockdown. I have really enjoyed making it, however my dream series at the moment is just being able to make work in a large studio where I can work to any scale and have space to stand back. Lockdown had really shown my the importance of having a studio and the space to look at your work.
  • When I paint I listen to the Harry Potter audiobooks on repeat.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Anna
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Pittsburgh
Place of death
Honolulu
Occupation
artist
Educated at
Académie Julian
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
painting
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place of burial
Homewood Cemetery
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Art+Feminism
date of death
1935-07-12
Commons category
Anna Woodward
date of birth
1868-01-26
name in native language
Anna Woodward
Commons Creator page
Anna Woodward
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