Annie (she/her) is a land-based painter and art therapist who makes her own materials out of foraged and natural colour sources. Annie’s painting expresses landscape, a sense of place, and embodiment; she paints out on the land using ingredients from the surrounding place and her garden. This includes indigo dyeing and making inks and paints from wild pigments found in the earth, botanicals, and metals left from decaying industry.
Annie’s personal art practice and practice in art therapy intertwine through the use of material, connection to the land, and her fellow artmakers in qathet, BC, the territory of the Tla’amin People.
Originally from Ohio, USA, Annie studied at Ohio State University, Maiwa School of Textiles, and Vancouver Art Therapy Institute. She has shown her work in Columbus, OH, Port Angeles, WA, Vancouver, BC, and the Sunshine Coast, BC.