Ann Thomson has just returned from three months working in the city of Reims, France. Immersing herself in the French culture and way of life, Thomson worked everyday in her studio producing inspired gouache on paper and acrylic on linen works. Thomson's works will be exhibited at the soon to be complete Jacquart Museum in Reims.
Born in Brisbane in 1933, Ann Thomson has been exhibiting since 1965. After studying under the renownded Australian expressionist, Jon Molvig, Thomson moved to Sydney to study at the National Art School, then called the East Sydney Technical College. In 1978 Thomson was awarded a residency at the Cit? Internationale des Arts, Paris. Thomson has subsequently been an artist in residence at the Cit? Internationale des Arts, Paris in 1995, 1999, 2000,?2003 and 2006. In 1998 Thomson won the Art Gallery of New South Wales' Wynne Prize. In 2002 she was awarded the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, and in 2005 was the Kedumba Drawing Award. Thomson lives and works in Sydney.
