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The Art of Ann Swanson Gross
Ann grew up in Winlaw, BC, and studied fine arts at the Kootenay School of Art in Nelson. She taught art in Junior High School in the Queen Charlotte Islands -Haida Gwaii, then worked in the History Department of the Provincial Museum in Victoria. She also did freelance illustrations for other government ministries, including the children's line drawings for Museum train in the late 1970's. In adjudicating her work in the 1982 Award for Artistic Excellence in the Kootenay Boundary Jury show, Jack Shadbolt said of her work: "genuinely intriguing ... with a haunting tawniness." |
