Details

First Name

Anne
Last Name

Keith
Username

annekeith

Statement

Statement

Landscape and skies mesmerise me
Colour is of the utmost importance in my work. I spend a considerable time mixing colour. To me colour conveys the mood and emotion of a painting – to me it is the soul of a painting.
Observing the Scottish landscape – it is often colour that compels me to reproduce the image and capture the atmosphere of that moment in time.

It has been said that digital art and digital painting is the medium of the future.

In many online forums digital art and painting runs parallel to using canvas, brush and paint. In the words of another digital artist “Nothing will replace the flow of water and pigment across a canvas or the texture of oil paint after it dries. It takes time to learn the tricks in order to be a successful artist. Just as much as it takes time to be proficient in digital painting”.

Biography

Biography

I am a digital artist working from my own studio in Aberdeenshire.

Since as long as I can remember I have always drawn and painted mainly in water colour but also creating monotype screenprints using procion dyes.

In 2004 I started up my own company Illustrate. And for the last 20 years I have worked alongside a geologist  creating geological diagrams using the vector drawing software Adobe Illustrator. Parallel to this I decided to redraw some of my original artwork using Illustrator. I found I could achieve a distinct contemporary edge.

I always thought that art would be my chosen career path. However, my career took an IT route and I became Computer Support Manager at the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service for Aberdeen, Orkney and Shetland.

Little did I know then that it would be technology and my computing knowledge and skills that would eventually bring me back to art and drawing that I loved.