Annell Livingston
Taos, NM
Translations 4/2
Flashe on 300 lb. w/c paper
10” x 10”
2019
$1200
About
Annell Livingston grew up in a tidal zone, on the south coast of Texas. As a child, she loved to draw and paint, to cut and paste, to sew and stitch. She loved color. In the early 1960s, she studied with Lowell Collins at the Lowell Collins School of Art, in Houston. In the 1980s, she taught classes at the Art League of Houston, and at the Watercolor Society of Houston. She also coordinated several collaborative programs for women artists. In 1994, she moved to Taos, New Mexico, a land of high mountain desert, a beautiful place to work without distraction. She is in the studio every day, having learned that”to be an artist,” it is a lifetime study. Because the goal of the artist is illusive and just out of reach, there is no”getting it,” but the journey continues.
Artist Statement
What to say? It is never clear, exactly what an artist should say? Does she talk about her work, her practice? What does a viewer want to know?
Every day, I practice. Each morning I go to the studio. Because painting is not something,”you get”, for if we are stretching and growing, investigating where we have been and where we are going, it remains” just out of reach.” Each day we find we are at the beginning. And each day, we are”off to the races, again.” Traveling roads unfamiliar, perhaps it is this way, we remain the”beginner.” Looking for new ways to say”it.” New uses of color, new shapes, new forms. No reason to just do it over and over the same. If we can say, it has been done, it is up to us to discover what is new, in this new day.
I have been practicing for over 60 years. I began studying at the Lowell Collins School of Art in Houston, Texas. Then I studied at the Glassel School of Art, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas. I went back to school and studied art at the University of Houston, my Experimental Painting Teacher was David Hickman. When I began studying watercolor, I joined the Watercolor Art Society of Houston, and studied with various teachers there, including Douglas M. Walton, and I went to Louisiana to study at several of his Watercolor Encounters, I had the privilege to studying with Katherine Chang Liu. After a while I began to teach in Houston, at the Watercolor Art Society of Houston, and the Art League.
Art from Annell Livingston in other TAAC exhibitions
