McLEAN, Annie

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Annie McLean

Annie McLean was born in North Lanarkshire, and left school with a Scottish Higher Level in Art A but is primarily a self-taught multi-media artist in oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolour with drawings in pen, pencil, or charcoal. She married in the mid 1970s and moved to raise her four daughters in Oxfordshire. In 2002 Annie moved to East Anglia and, after a time, established herself as an artist in Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk but continued with her 'day job'. In October 2014 she returned to live in Scotland and is now settled in Kirriemuir, Angus from where she is building her practice and studio, working as a professional artist. Her favourite subjects include landscape, still life composition, portraits, drawing from life and some contemporary work. Annie's inspiration comes from life although on occasions she does work from imagination, but her specialist area is in landscapes, particularly of the Southwold area where she lived for several years and Scotland. A former member of Suffolk Open Studios with a studio at 4 Springfield, Keens Lane, Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk but now of the Angus Open Studios. She has exhibited at Suffolk Open Studios Showcase Exhibition and the Upstairs Gallery at Beccles, Suffolk and has a permanent exhibition at Ainetheon Art Centre, a small Gallery Shop and Studio in the historical town of Kirriemuir in Angus, Scotland.




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