Annora Spence

Born in 1963 Annora Spence studied in printed textiles at Liverpool Polytechnic, during the early 1980's and continued her further education by completing an MA in the same subject at Birmingham Polytechnic.

Having completed her studies Annora Spence worked as a freelance artist and designer. Since 1990 she has concentrated on her career as a painter and has enjoyed sell-out shows in London and abroad.
She has been making silkscreen prints with since 1994, with each new edition selling out in record time. Annora Spence has recently started creating etchings and bronze sculptures.

Annora derives many of the ideas for her work from her travels throughout Europe, India and Asia and draws inspiration from the characters, situations and colours she encounters. Her palette ranges from rich to pale and subtle, building up layers of tone and texture. Humour has always been a significant ingredient in her work and she tries to bring this out in the way she manipulates figurative images and characters, developing a storyline around them as she goes along.

In the more recent paintings, interiors have become a prominent source of inspiration. Scale too is an important tool for her, by turning it on its head; the humour of the image can be enhanced.