Annie Luke Turner bio

Annie Luke Turner

England, 1966

www.annieluketurnerartist.com

Annie studied Fine Art at the University of Gloucester. She is a teacher and combines this with an artistic production which has been exhibited principally in the North of England.

She says of her work : “When I start work it begins with a feeling for a place.

For me that’s always rooted in a sense of what might have been there before – whatever it is that might have made that place significant.

My parents always had a feel for these places. They were climbers and my mum has always loved history, especially pre-history – so as children, my brother and I were always out in the woods and hills and looking for old stones with cup and ring marks up on the moors. I am interested in archeology - my great uncle was a well known archeologist in York and I have a fascination for the marks left in the landscape by our ancestors.

I spend time in a landscape and sketch, trying to understand the feel of the place and observing things that keep showing up in my drawing. When I start to paint, I don’t know what the marks that I make will be or how the painting will evolve. I don’t hold a particular image in my mind, but I try to keep in touch with the feeling of the place. My paintings have lots of layers and marks, for me that’s a connection to the sense of the past and the history of the landscape.”