Annie Drew was born in 1990 at Torquay, Devon. She decided to make a career in art at the age of 16, and enrolled in a local college. Frustrated with the college emphasis of not teaching and encouraging conventional art she decided to leave after one year and follow her dream to become a wildlife artist.
Annie Drew committed a huge amount of time and effort to learn classic painting techniques. This has proved a fundamental and invaluable skill enabling Annie to create lifelike and striking pieces. Her work has steadily evolved over the years, through trial and error, learning new techniques, and using the best quality materials. Today, Annie is an artist with a well established and deserved reputation for painting highly realistic and detailed oil paintings. She is an international wildlife artist par excellence with paintings hanging in galleries as far afield as Missouri, USA
Over the last few years Annie has created and introduced limited edition prints featuring some of the subjects detailed in her orginal oil paintings. All the prints are completed using the latest giclee technology and are of excellent quality.
Talking about her paintings Annie Drew says: 'One of my ambitions when I first started painting, was to produce art work that didn’t require paragraphs of written words to explain, describe and sum up a piece of work. I’ve always believed that if it has to be explained, it isn’t working. “Art that speaks for itself” became my goal and I like to think that I’ve managed it.'
Annie is fanatical is her persuit of creating the best. Using the finest quality boards, paint and brushes she has developed a close-up, detailed style of painting so that each strand of hair, every wrinkle and as much character as the original animal is visible.
In 2016 Annie became a member of the Fine Art Trade Guild. They are an organisation who help to uphold the quality and ethics of the art world. Working as a member of the guild helps give reassurence that certain standard have been satisfied.
