Artist Mary Jane Ansell (British artist)
Mary Jane Ansell
is a previous finalist in the prestigious BP Portrait Award in 2004, 2009, 2010
and 2012 and has been selected several times for the Royal Society of Portrait
Painters Annual Exhibition and The Threadneedle Prize. Based in the UK she
shows internationally with recent group and solo exhibitions in London, New
York, Singapore and LA. Ansell's work draws influences from a multitude of
inspirations, her sitters become characters imbued with a narrative that Ansell
says develops collaboratively as she works with them, at times autobiographical
, drawing memories from childhood or her response to the current complexities
of politics and issues of gender, drawing too from the language of classical
portraiture to the world of haute couture and with an appreciation for a
refined technique that evokes the past but with a resolutely modern viewpoint.
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