Ann Seabourne was educated as a painter and printmaker. She has exhibited widely, both in this country and abroad and has work in public, private and corporate collections.Her home and studio are in West Yorkshire, close to the city of Leeds, where she also exhibits frequently.

Ann has four major forces which drive her creative impulses as a visual artist. A passion for drawing, a love of media and the craft of painting, an enduring need to engage with art from many cultures and times, and the capacity for visual excitement she finds in the world around her. Visual excitement is the starting point for all her work and can be experienced just as strongly in the studio as on a beach or ancient architectural site. Responding to the contrasting qualities of light and colour temperature, whether working from observation in the studio, an Etruscan burial ground in Italy or a garden in Spain, is a big challenge for a painter who does not want to simply describe what is seen.

Potential compositions, identified on site, provide reference for structuring the work as it is created through experiment. This is a long process through which elusive, fleeting mental pictures gradually become embodied in paint through a process of discovery and recognition. Hopefully the paintings then reflect rich remembered experiences , creating a world which can only exist in the gap between the visual and the imagined.

The two most recent series of works, using collage and mixed media as well as acrylics and oils, are focussed upon experiences drawn from the Alhambra palaces and gardens in Granada at different times of year. These move away from drawing as the main support for colour, to colour itself as the primary stimulus, inspired by the breathtaking buildings and terraces, suffused with vibrant, scintillating colour combinations which have driven a transition to the colour moods and rhythms of current works.