About Anne Garton
Anne Garton has been involved in creative endeavors most of her adult life. She studied illustration at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto in the mid 60's where she was exposed to the famous Group of Seven landscape painters of the 30's and 40's. Their influence on her work is evident today, especially in her choice of the post-impressionist landscape as her subject. After moving to the Boston area with her artist husband, she studied painting in Scituate, Massachusetts under the marine artist, Michael Keane. Later in the decade she partnered with two other women in the operation of The Bare Cove Gallery in Hingham, Massachusetts. In 1980, she was instrumental in developing Business Impressions, one of the first art consultancies in New England. In 1982, she joined Gilmore Associates Video Production and inaugurated a twenty-five year career in advertising and film production, including a stint at WGBH in children's television production.
When her children were grown, Anne moved to Eastham in Cape Cod full time in 2001. For several years she consulted as a free-lance producer and writer as well as operating a small antique business from her barn in Eastham. In September of 2006, inspired by the inexhaustible natural beauty of the outercape, she returned to painting after a long artistic silence. She studied with the painter Rick Fleury at the Cape Cod Museum and subsequently with the New York landscape painter, Marjorie Portnow, at the Fine Art Work Center. Her early Canadian influences still dominate her artistic sensibility, as she strives to distill her love of her natural environment into a profound and spiritual artistic expression.
Exhibitions and Juried Shows
2008: Northeast Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association. Juror, Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator of the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art
2008: Renjeau Galleries: Seascapes and Coastal Landscapes Group Show
2008: Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Festival of the Arts
2008: Provincetown Art Assocaition and Museum: Blue Show
2007: Provincetown Art Association and Museum; Small Works Show
2007: Provincetown Art Association and Museum: Annual Juried Show
2007: Provincetown Art Association and Museum: 12 X 12 member show
2007: Cape Cod Arts Association: Juried All-Cape Show
2007: Creative Arts Center, Chatham MA Juried All-Cape Show
2007: Creative Arts Center: Open Juried Show
2007: Cape Cod Arts Association, Juried National Show
2007: Cape Cod Arts Association: Juried All New England Show
2007: Members Shows: Cape Cod Arts Association (4)
2006: Orleans Cultural Council annual show, 2006
Galleries
Renjeau Gallery, Natick MA
20 Pearl St. Gallery, Hyannis,MA (opening June 2008)
Juried Artist Memberships & Associations
Cambridge Art Association
Cape Cod Art Association
Provincetown Art Association
Formal Art Education
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario: Illustration
General Education
BA University of Massachusetts, Anthropology
MA University of Massachusetts, English Literature
PH.D (ABD) McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Literary Theory
Workshops and Instruction
2007: Marjorie Portnow, Fine Arts Work Center
2006-2007: Rick Fleury, Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art; three workshops
2006: Christy King, Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art
Michael Keane, Marine Painter.
Background
25 years in film/video production: producer, project management, set design, set styling, casting etc.
Project Manager, WGBH, PBS: Ready-to Learn children's initiative
Partner, Bare Cove Gallery, Hingham, MA
Art Consultant: Business Impressions
Director International Business Development, Hill Holiday Connors Cosmopulos
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