I am interested in the ever changing, shrinking landscape around me. After capturing the essence of a particular place with my camera, I translate the image to canvas via charcoal, turp, varnish, stand oil and pigments. Although I like to name place my paintings, they more than likely convey a feeling rather than place recognition. As I get lost in the process of painting, my work in the final analysis is about paint and the application thereof.

Many of the landscapes I have painted have changed immensely. A cow pasture in Connecticut no longer has cows. That bucolic scene has surrendered to new home and landscape expansion. Other scenic routes in Virginia and Maryland have changed due to road widening projects for more vehicles. Climate change has added to the ever evolving landscape by floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and other natural and human disasters. Just as our lives are in flux, so, too, is the landscape.

The Hudson River Valley artists left a record of the 19th century landscape, and I continue in that lineage recording the landscapes of my time. My paintings are a historical permanent account of the 21st century landscape and the emotional connection we have with our environment.

"...H. K. Anne's muscularly expressionistic oil of a gnarled tree rising as sinuously as one Egon Schiele's figures out of packed snow..."

Gallery & Studio (The World of the Working Artist)
June/July/August, 2006, Vol. 8 No. 5.
New York

Born: Indianapolis, Indiana

EDUCATION:
Master of Fine Arts in Painting: Western Connecticut State University, May, 2006

Bachelor of Arts: Sarah Lawrence College, 1995 Focus on Studio Arts and 19th Century European Art History.

Associate Degree: Indiana University, 1982

Docent, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1976-1990

CURRENT:
Studio Artist Member of the Workhouse Arts Center, a program of the Lorton Arts Foundation, February 2009 to present.

Member of College Art Association (CAA) since 2005. Participated in 2007 Boston Symposium.

RESIDENCES and AWARDS:
Vermont Studio Center, Artist's Award, Johnson, VT, 2011.

"Living Gallery," Annmarie Gardens associated with the Smithsonian Institution. Artist in residence and exhibition, Solomons, MD, 2010.

FAWC, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, 2005 and 2002.

EXHIBITIONS:
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra Exhibition, Fairfax, VA 2012 and 2011.

“10th Anniversary Celebration for Lorton Arts Foundation,” Lorton, VA 2011.

“Modern Landscapes,” Dacia Art Gallery, New York, NY, 2011.

“Art for Life,” Walker-Whitman Clinic, Washington, D.C., 2010 and 2009.

“Real Art DC,” The Washington Post, 2010.

International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C., 2010.

“Response to the Oil Spill,” traveling exhibit:
The Flying Monkey Art Gallery, Huntsville, AL, 2010.
The Foster Collective, Landslide Art Gallery,
Chicago, IL, 2010.

"Greenspiration" exhibition, Lorton Arts Foundation, Lorton, VA, 2010.

"Virginia Minds Wide Open,” Fairfax Symphony's Women in the Arts Project, 2010.

"Art in the Workplace," Fairfax Council of Arts solo exhibit at LMI in Tysons Corner, VA, 2010.

"Something Hot," 7th Annual Juried Show and Sale, Gallery 222, Leesburg, VA, 2008.

“Fall Into the Arts," Juried show and festival by Rehau, Leesburg, VA, 2007.

"Western Connecticut State University MFA Thesis Show," Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, 2006.

Juried show, Kent Art Association, Kent, CT, 2006.

"Western Connecticut State University MFA Thesis Show," Warner Hall, Danbury, Connecticut, 2006.

“Country Life, the Farm,” Silo Gallery of Hunt Hill Farm, New Milford, CT, 2006 and 2005.

Jane Goodall Institute Symposium, Western Connecticut State University, 2005.

Juried show, Arts Society of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library, 2005.

Sarah Lawrence College Alumni Show, Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Bronxville, NY, 2005.

Western Connecticut State University MFA show, Alumni Hall, Danbury, CT, 2005.

Photographer's Forum Magazine's 25th Annual College Photography Contest, Finalist selection, Best of College Photography Annual 2005.