This article recently appeared on the Pettigo website: www.pettigo.com
Anna Marie was born in Pettigo, Co. Donegal in 1939. She was awarded a scholarship to the National College of Art, Dublin. When she was expecting her first child Anna Marie had to hang up her oil painting brushes as she turned against the smell of turpentine and so she started to paint in watercolours. She says her love of nature and watercolour painting stems from seeds set in her childhood years on the family farm near Pettigo and her mother’s enthusiasm and constant encouragement of her sketching and painting from a little watercolour box of paints.
Her reputation as a transparent watercolorist of note has grown over the years. She has had successful exhibitions with the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Water Colour Society of Ireland as well as galleries throughout the country. She has taken part in exhibitions in the USA and the Municipal Art Museum, Tokyo as part of the UNESCO International Friendship Exhibition. Her paintings are in public and private collections all over the world.
