Ann Robertson – Artist and Illustrator

Seaside Treasures

Seaside Treasures

  I visited a friend in Pembrokeshire last year and came home with some seaside treasures. I remember these egg cases from my childhood on the beach near my grans. The shapes are lovely and the way they twist as they dry out make them quite sculptural. It took a...
Drawing Out

Drawing Out

  This was our last drawing out session of the summer. We met at The Leather’s Smithy and I walked along the reservoir and then dropped down to the little valley and Bollin Brook, where I settled and did some drawing. It was lovely down there with the...
Drawing Out

Drawing Out

Some more sessions drawing out and about. One week I actually decided to try painting from life. I haven’t done this for years, and although it is not altogether successful, there are bits of it I really like. Even more importantly I like the fact that I did...
Small pleasures- Drawing out

Small pleasures- Drawing out

The small pleasure I got from these two little drawings in the last couple of months is reassuring in a year where any pleasure has been in short supply. The alder was drawn at Riverside Park in Macclesfield, where I met up with a couple of other people for a socially...
Gecko Prints

Gecko Prints

I have been making unique print cards, with both a Gecko design and Guineau Fowl. I like the way that having created a plate I can ink it up however I want and print it alone or incoorporate it with other media or print elements. I look for a main element that is...