Inspiring the world... one painting at a time.

Becoming an oil painter is Ann's response to a lifetime of exploring and appreciating creation.  After a childhood of romping in a ravine and climbing trees, a college career marjoring in art and biology, and more recently, studying with nationally recognized artists, it is with great passion that she responds to all of this on canvas.

Although Ann's oil paintings vary greatly in subject, all exude a sense of comfort and hope. Whether she paints the shadows in a landscape, the radiance of a flower, or the nostalgia an object evokes, her images satisfy a longing for truth and beauty, and often reflect the values and simplicity of days gone by.

Ann feels an obligation to use the artistic talent God has bestowed upon her, offering it to the world as a means of "awakening ones soul to a sense of the eternal... inviting one to wonder, to savor life, and to ponder beauty" (Pope John Paul II). 

Ann teaches at the White Bear Center for the Arts in White Bear Lake, MN. She paints in a lovely studio at home in Maplewood, MN, where she lives with her husband Mark, and their children, Catherine, Lucas, Alex, Maria, and Lulu their dog, in a pretty yellow house surrounded by flowers