| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Born in Spirit River, Alberta, painter Anne Nash grew up on a farm near the village of Rycroft, AB. After beginning a career as a registered nurse at the Edmonton General Hospital (1958), she moved to Calgary where she married and began a family. Nash took occasional art classes and spent leisure time with her family at a cabin outside the city, and explored the wilds while sketching, painting, and taking photographs.
In 1976 Nash finally realised a long-standing ambition: she studied acrylics and ceramics full-time at the Alberta College of Art and Design (1974 – 1980) and graduated with a diploma in Painting; during her time at ACAD she won a scholarship to study at the Banff centre of the Arts during summer session (1979). Her work with the Alberta Society of Artists twice took her to Japan and New York.
Describing works such as “The Aged in Today’s Society,” Nash wrote, “My work is expressionistic, portraying the daily lives of the elderly in nursing homes, senior citizen homes, and of those living alone.” She mounted a solo exhibition at the Muttart Gallery in Calgary, and participated in numerous juried exhibitions including the ASA Annual at Lemarchand Gallery in Edmonton, Expo ’86 in Vancouver, and the ASA Sharing Visions Tour of Korea and Japan. Her works abide in numerous private collections, as well as in the collections of Canadian Pacific Airlines and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Nash was a member of the ASA for which she was executive secretary and treasurer (1984 – 1986). She died in 2012 from Alzheimer’s Disease. |