About My Art
Following the recent death of my sister, my art has been, an 'out pouring' of emotions.
My sister and I had an on/off relationship. She was a difficult person to grow up with. She had a baby at sixteen when I was only six. Our lives crossed now and again, and when it did we clashed. Throughout our time we hardly ever spoke, and we never became sisters again.
During the year 2025/2026 I attended at year long professional landscape course with Newlyn School of Art. Part of the course enabled me to show at the Tremenheere Gallery, Cornwall with a family of fellow artists from across the country. I was able to exhibit my handmade cloth book of textiles, long roll of machine sewn stories on fabric, a selection of my ink drawings, my copper sheds and a large scale house sculpture.
This work exposes the viewer to themes such as estrangement, vulnerability, presence, absence, grief, longing and fragility, all born from living experiences. But it does give a sense of fun, humour, endurance, hope, healing and recovery.
Blog Post
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Courses
Year Long Mentoring Landscape Course. Newlyn School of Art, Cornwall. November 2025 to September 2026Experimental Drawing Artist Kate Walters. May 2026
Creativity, the Cosmos and the Body. Existential Tissue; Presence and Absence.... Artist Kate Walters. August 2026Artist Residency at Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall January to February 2027
Year Long Studio Practise Course. Newlyn School of Art, Cornwall September 2022 to July 2023Artist Residency week at Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall. July 2023
The Sister
Ink Drawings
Tremenheere Gallery Cornwall
Exhibition September 2026
https://www.newlynartschool.co.uk/blog/ann-marie-whitton
Sewing
The Book of Forgiveness
A cloth book made from fabric scraps, tea towels and threads
Exhibited at the Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall 2026
https://www.newlynartschool.co.uk/blog/ann-marie-whitton
The Blog
Thoughts, musings, and ruminations.
June 1, 2026Here is a drawing of my sister, she is on the left, and I am in the flower dress. We had a difficult relationship. It lacked empathy, wracked with emotional tension, awful damaging jealousy and long, long silences. She was ten years older than me. And at sixteen she had a baby, and I was only...January 8, 2026My art practise is about drawing buildings. I am fascinated by them. My work uncovers a sense of nostalgia, memory, time, history, story telling, inheritance, sense of place, loss and decay. I ask myself 'Why do we love buildings?' 'What is a home?' 'Why do we identify with lost places?' ...October 14, 2025For about three years I have been making small sculptures from recycled copper and wood, plaster and concrete, plus a recent exploration into ceramics. I have followed a simple theme of 'On the Edge'. This evolved as I am interested in the idea of communities that are living 'on the edge' of...Sign Up for Our Newsletter!
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