Anne McGilvary: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Anne was born in Noranda, Quebec and raised in Sudbury, Ontario but she now considers herself a Western Canadian having moved to Calgary, Alberta over thirty years ago.

Art has always been a second nature to Anne. She has dabbled in a variety of mediums including pastels, watercolours, pencil crayons, pen and ink, charcoal and oils. She won a city-wide award for a landscape painting in grade eight and sold her first painting while still in high school.

Anne prefers Acrylics as a medium to paint with. Her canvasses evolve using multiple layers of paint with a focus on colour, light and tonal values. The majority of her reference photos are taken on day trips to areas west of Calgary.

Anne has taken classes in Landscape painting and Drawing at the Alberta College of Art and Design. She is a member of the Foothills Art Club in Cochrane and has displayed and sold her work at various venues in the Cochrane and Calgary areas. Anne also enrolls in art workshops with professional artists on a regular basis. Anne testifies that her Decorative painting skills played an instrumental part in the evolution of her original art pieces.

Anne was invited into the Artist Window at the Calgary Stampede in 2007 after winning an Honorable Mention with a submission to the Arts and Crafts section of the Stampede in 2006. In 2008 she was juried into the Western Art Gallery of the Calgary Stampede.

Anne is also a member of the Calgary Decorative Artists and has attended Conventions hosted by the International Society of Decorative Painters.