Tropical Art

Ann was born and raised on the exotic Caribbean Island of Tobago, a tropical island with coconut palm lined white sand beaches, where she first ventured into creating watercolors accentuated with pen and ink.

She studied in Barbados, another Caribbean island, and was fascinated by the fabric arts that were created there, using hot wax, chanting tools, and Procion dyes in a ‘batik’ procedure that inspired her to start creating art on fabric.

Moving to Maui, Hawai’i from Canada where she went to college, she took up Silk Painting with hot wax as the resist and French dyes, as well as creating delicate watercolors with pen and ink. She combined this with her love of scuba diving and used “artistic license” to create wildly colorful and fun marine life in her line of cards and prints. Turtles are a treasure since her childhood, where she watched them hatch on the hot sand and head to the ocean, and swam with them often while snorkeling.