Members of the Colborne Art Gallery Anne McDonald anniemmcd@hotmail.com I have always done art. I have also travelled extensively, worked as a cook and as a furniture designer/builder, more recently as a naturalist, a teacher and a mother. Tucked into this life I have made things: cartoons as a kid, jewellery and sculpture as a high school student, and furniture and textiles in my early adulthood. Ten years ago I entered University and returned to drawing and painting. I was born in Tacoma, Washington. I have lived in places as far-reaching as Britain to California, and find myself for the past seven years in Northumberland County. I'm not always sure where the edges are between living life and doing art. Setting the table can be a performance; making a fruit tray like a painting. Just heading out for a walk can offer up a colour or a mood …. Like noticing the sun on a child's hair, a certain texture beach sand takes on when it's frozen, or the blurred look of a tree blowing in the wind. In this way my work is beginning to find roots in this time and place. These things and other musings about life's processes can become the subjects of my work. It is about questions rather than answers, about expressions usually, rather than representation. It is a celebration!	Our Current Schedule Gallery Members A sampling of work by Anne McDonald (click icons for larger views) "Fish to Bird II" 'The Birdwatchers"