Anne Corless

RN, RM, BA (Hons), MMAA, RMIP

About the artwork…

Anne Corless - Fine Artist

In my work as a professional artist, I work in a number of areas.  As a Fine Artist I specialise in portraiture, animal art and landscapes.  I also work as a Designer and Illustrator.  I am a qualified and registered Medical Artist and enjoy working on medical, veterinary and scientific commissions.

This website is about my Fine Art.  To see my work as a Designer, Illustrator and Medical Artist please visit www.tembographics.com.

Qualifications

• Registered Medical Illustration Practitioner

• Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Art

• Awarded Barber Surgeons MAET Student Bursary  2005

• Edexcel Level 3 BTEC Award Life Drawing

• OCNW Level 2 Award Life Drawing

• B.A. (Hons) Design (Scientific & Natural History Illustration)

• Registered Midwife

• Registered Nurse

Professional Organisations

• Member of the Assocation Europeenes des Illustrateurs Medicaux et Scientifiques

• Member of the Association of Illustrators

• Member of the Association of Medical Illustrators (USA)

• Elected an artist member of the Fine Art Trade Guild in 2009 and selected to sit on the Guild’s National Fine Art Committee in 2011.

• Member of the Medical Artists’ Association of Great Britain.

• Member of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM)

• Member of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN)

• Member of the The Writers Guild

Societies and Groups

• A Founder Member, Trustee & Chairman of the  Association of Animal Artists.

• Member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) (USA).

Magazines:

• A Contributor (writer) for Leisure Painter Magazine and Art Demonstrator for The Artist and Leisure Painter Magazines.

About the artist…

Born in the UK, as a young child I travelled overseas with my parents and was brought up in Nigeria, Australia and Kenya.

Above is a photograph taken in the Aberdare National Park in Kenya as we watched a herd of elephant crashing through the bush on the hill beyond. In the late 1970′s it was still possible to see large herds of elephant on our travel around Kenya. Below is a photograph of my folks and I at Mzima Springs in Tsavo West Game Park; note the hippo in the background!

I later worked as a registered nurse in Kenya and as a midwife in Saudi Arabia, South Africa and then back in the UK. Determined to combine my artwork with my medical background, with the support of my husband and three children I eventually returned to my studies and was awarded a B.A. (Hons) in Scientific and Natural History Illustration. I then went on to study on a post graduate Medical Art course with the Medical Artists Education Trust here in the UK.

Treasured memories of two of my best animal friends; a retired polo pony and an ex race horse…..

It is many years since I was privileged to own two wonderful horses…and how different could they be;  my retired polo pony had brakes and could turn on a sixpence and my race horse could only travel in a straight line at first…..!  These days I do not have the time to enjoy owning a horse (my art takes up all my time) but I meet lots of equines and their owners through my work as an artist and I would not give that up for anything.  It is an absolute joy to create a piece of artwork of a treasured animal.

I enjoy using my artwork to support the following equine charities:

• Lancashire Retired Police Horse Benevolent Fund
• World Horse Welfare (previously the ILPH)