ABOUT THE ARTIST
Annell Livingston grew up in a tidal zone on the south coast of Texas. As a child, she loved to draw and paint, cut and paste, sew, and stitch; color was her passion. In the early 1990s, she taught at the Houston Art League and WASH, the Houston Watercolor Art Society Houston. She also coordinated several collaborative projects for women.
In 1994, after the death of her husband, she moved to Taos, New Mexico, a land of high mountain desert, a place of incredible beauty to work without distraction. She is in the studio daily, having learned that “to be an artist” is a lifetime study. Because the artist’s goal is elusive and out of reach, there is no “getting it.”
Annell began writing about 20 years ago. She says, in the beginning, she wrote to remember. To keep from getting lost. And to be aware of what she was thinking. Because a visual artist is often required to talk about her work, she found that she could organize her thoughts about what she was doing through writing. Over time, writing became a part of her daily studio practice.
© Annell Livingston