The Anne Genner Crawford (MAFA) Collection

Born in 1944 in the North East of England. Trained at Sunderland and Birmingham Polytechnics in the 60s, she moved to Yorkshire, where she lived and worked in a cottage on the edge of the Peak District National Park.

Speaking about her work, she said, “In recent years my subject matter has derived from artifacts found in the rural environment in which I live. For some time I have worked with assemblage, collecting broken pottery, doll’s heads, shells and bits of lace. These objects, lying around my studio, began to interest me for their own sake and I began to draw and paint from them, arranging and re-arranging them endlessly. Sometimes the objects have great personal significance, sometimes they are simply things that I like. I put them together to create their own relationships, harmony, perhaps thought, perhaps disquiet.”

Anne exhibited regularly in the UK and USA. Her work is in private collections in the UK, France, Germany, Australia, USA and South Africa.