About the artist

Born 1931
BFA Miami of Ohio
Additional studies: Hiram College, Ohio
Kent State, Ohio
Cleveland Institute of Art

Taught privately in Terre Haute and Columbus, IN, at Studio Workshop (later formed Valley Art Center Chagrin Falls, O.) and Cuyahoga Community College
1949 – 1983 oil and acrylic paintings of landscapes, commissioned portraits, still life, children studies, old houses. Exhibited in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina

1984… exhibited Imagination prints in invitational shows and galleries in Indiana, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Arizona with numerous awards.

 In 1983, at age 52, Ann set up a silk-screen studio in an old house in Waxhaw NC. Using automatism in the manner of Motherwell and Klee, she created her own world of characters in imaginative settings. Using her own life experiences, she developed visual stories. These new allegoric images were rendered in serigraphy, often employing large blends of color and collage. Studying two different years with Lynwood Kreneck at Penland School of Crafts, she became proficient in oil and water-base serigraphy. For the next ten years her prints were shown in one woman exhibits at art centers and seven galleries throughout the southern states. Her husband died in 1994; then a cancer tumor was removed from her leg. Knowing, after two surgeries and a wheelchair, she could no longer continue serigraphy or use her studio, she moved to Green Valley AZ to be close to her sons.

  Acquiring a press, Ann examined the possibilities of monotype, sometimes layered and collaged, and realized that cutting and dying paper could be used in a similar manner to the stencil process of serigraphy. Experimenting with an early pigment-ink Epson printer led to an interest in giclée prints; she has published reproductions of many of her prints and continues to create “the world of Ann Over…Ann Over…Ann Over….”