Ann Arnold Telfer, (4 January 1936 – 28 December 2015) was an English fine art and figurative artist and a member of the

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. Ann Arnold was born in

Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne ( RP: , ), or simply Newcastle, is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. The city is located on the River Tyne's northern bank and forms the largest part of the Tyneside built-up area. Newcastle is als ...

, and studied at

Epsom School of Art Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College (SIAD) was an art college in the United Kingdom from 1994 to 2005. It was formed from the merger of West Surrey College of Art and Design (1969–1995) and Epsom School of Art and Design (1893� ...

(1956–1959). Her father, Edmund Telfer, was a naval architect. From 1959 to 1969 Arnold worked as an

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, and founded the Association of Art Therapists. She married fellow artist

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in 1961. She was a founder member of the

in 1976 with him, Sir Peter Blake,

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and

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. Both Anne and Graham were based in

Devizes Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman architecture, Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141. The castle was besieged during the Anarchy, a 12th-century ...

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for a number of years after 1975, before settling in the Redlake Valley of southern

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. Arnold mainly worked in oil on canvas and watercolour. In 1981 she illustrated ''Claire's Countryside'' and also designed covers for editions of the Arden Shakespeare series. She was an Academician of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Art. She died on 28 December 2015, and interred at St Mary's Church in

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References

External links

Brotherhood of Ruralists web site''Homage To Eve'' Brotherhood of Ruralists show at Wiltshire Heritage Museum
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