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Ann is born Austrian and immigrated to NZ in 2009, she started painting in 2011.

Ann is an engineer in Biochemistry & Biotechnology and has published a book in 2008. Her first love is writing - and she considers herself mostly as a storyteller in her art works too.

Ann works in diverse media - but the most important factor is in the layers - waiting for the work in progress to speak to her, waiting for its personality to show itself but she never fully knows whether a work is finished!

She has often passed what could have been a finished work, to a point she did not like a piece anymore - however the way she works does allow her to re-consider - mostly after she has put the unfinished work away for a while not even looking at it.

So whilst her expressive work is often quickly developed in its layers, a work can take months to become complete.

Most of her work [painting, collage, mixed media] is concerned with the human condition - “the layers of our minds - our human nature that has many more layers we sometimes might even not admit to ourselves”.

“And the human being that is not of a gender bias - but belongs, is part to/of everyone...or maybe they are all self portraits of some sort?”

Ann spent many hours with her father in the dark room - so composition & the use of colour is an essential tool for her.

Her inspiration comes from many different angles - literature [for example Franz Kafka, Sylvia Plath, Haruki Murakami], philosophy, sociology. psychology, anthropology and of course the arts - her main source might be the post war era, conceptual [Duchamp, Sol Dewitt, Beuys, Brancusi, etc.. etc..] however in her mixed media/painting works she would more refer to Amnsel Kiefer, Gottfried Helnwein, Arnulf Rainer, Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Ketih Harring...more recent artists would be Jenny Saville, Tracey Enim…and in art history: Kathe Kollwitz, Egon Schiele, Oscar Kokoschka