Online Gallery features:

Anne Hilow
October 1 through October 30, 2006

Anne Hilow's illustration: Summer in the Garden
  Anne Hilow's illustration: Adventure at La Cannet

Anne Hilow

San Francisco

  Bangkok, Thailand; Heidelberg, Germany; Ankara, Turkey-these were my homes before my family settled in California. Plagued by familial wanderlust, my wandering continues. Eight years ago a major life change sent me careening from a handsomely paid high technology career. The pull to live creatively was so strong it overcame my most horrifying premonitions about doing so.

In my first act of independence, I pulled up roots, "Shriek!!", and drove a lumbering van conversion around the beautiful U.S. of America. On the way, visiting British sportsmen taught me how to shoot my first clay pigeon and concoct a dynamite gin and tonic. Later, I stumbled on the set of a Robert Altman movie in Mississippi's baking backwaters. In Maine, new found Italian and Bulgarian friends and I cycled to Lake Chickawakee for early morning swims surrounded by meadows of vibrant violet lupin and delicate Queen Anne's Lace.

Returning to California, "Hurrah!", I settled in Sonoma County's unusually blessed wine country to set up my painting, sculpting and writing studio. I live here with Jack, a blue eyed border collie, on a creek bursting with bumbling possum and grumbling raccoon. Never formally schooled in art I dove into local fine art courses and continue to practice practice practice on my own. My art provides me sustenance and a place of innocence, wonder and gentle understanding.

Anne Hilow (like "pillow")

For more information, please visit www.annehilow.com

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