Ann Getsinger

Cow Bone and Peonies (Surreal Still life with earth tones and pink and purple)

1996

Artist Statement: Rarely making preliminary sketches, I work as realistically as I want over an abstract foundation, essentially letting my mind wander in an intuitive way between subconscious, conscious, and super conscious. Integrating still life, landscape, and figures, painting is a trip into the many ways that anything relates to everything. My work reflects my life by integrating stillness and motion, a sense of time and timelessness, and most of all–mystery. I often find myself in a place of enormous freedom, full of surprises. Bio: Born on Oct. 22, 1956, Ann grew up in Watertown, Connecticut. As the youngest of five in a creative household, her earliest memories are of making artwork. After studying at Paier School of Art in New Haven, CT, and the San Francisco Art Institute, she settled permanently in western Massachusetts where she studied privately with realist artist Sheldon Fink. The artist’s home and studio is in the rural Berkshire town of New Marlborough, Massachusetts. Since childhood she also works regularly in the mid-coast area of Maine. She has a lifelong connection to both communities.