Ann Salviazul

I’ve been drawing for as long as I can recall, and at a very young age both my parents encouraged it! I was also fortunate to find many mentors throughout my life to teach and inspire me to learn, explore and enjoy creating art – both drawing and painting.

I consistently carry a sketchbook because I find myself compelled to pick up pencil or pen and draw whatever I see or experience. This visual journaling provides me deep insight and is a sort of meditative practice as I observe life and am witness to it. Sometimes it’s the most simple of sights – the color of late sun on a scene, abstract shapes of a dilapidated structure, shadows on the snow – that grab my attention and beg me to capture its likeness.

My artwork is representational and sometimes abstracted, created with watercolor, gouache, charcoal and pencil or pen. It originates from direct observation of life, sometimes completed on-the-spot, or finished in the studio later. Images produced exclusively in the studio emanate from years of daily sketches, and/or painting studies. All this informs the finished artwork, hopefully conveying the feeling or sense of place and time.