Ann Kipling

Ann Kipling L.L.D (1934 – August 30, 2023)^[1] was a Canadian artist who created impressionistic portraits and landscapes in drawings and prints on paper from direct observation.

Kipling's distinctive style of overlapping, temporally suggestive linework was formed through her working process, which involved drawing her subject over time, recording subtle shifts in movement in the sitter or landscape during that period. Her work is characterized by a flat sense of space, where lines are used to frame a vibrating and gestural idea of her subject, rather than a direct representation of form. While not directly connected to any art movement in particular, connections can be made to Chinese landscape painters and the watercolours of Paul Cézanne. Using colour minimally, her primary media was etching, drawing, watercolours, pen, pencil, pastels and pencil crayons. She lived and worked in Falkland, BC, a location which serves as a focus for her landscapes.