Artist Statement:  

There is an element of play in my work, even with ominous subject matter. My favorite support material is brown kraft paper that encourages my spontaneous approach.  In addition to acrylics, my mediums include oil on panel and canvas

Bio: 

A San Francisco based artist with a studio in Hunters Point Shipyard and Pt. Reyes, Ann Phelan has been exhibiting nationally since the 1990’s. Although several decades younger, Phelan’s work shows the influence of the art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti who has been a mentor to the artist.  Phelan’s own work has an independent approach to the realms of dream-states with a fairy-tale like symbolism and a color-palette closer to European painting that links her to her great grandfather, Wickenden, an antiques and art dealer in Auvers sur l’Oise who sold work of Corot and Daubigny.