The Gallery is now open
Friday and Saturdays 10am-4pm
Sundays 12-4pm
Anne Schnurr
Acrylic
Anne Schnurr is a full-time visual artist in Georgian Bluffs, Ontario, having moved her studio from Guelph in 2024. She holds a Fine Art degree from the University of Guelph, specializing in sculpture, design, and painting. Currently, she works as a mixed media artist using acrylic and oil paint.
After her degree, she took a hiatus but returned to Guelph in the late 1990s to raise a family and work as a Visual Arts high school teacher. During this time, she maintained her studio practice and engaged with disengaged youth through community art projects. She founded YAP - Youth Art Project for at-risk youth, participated in regional arts festivals, coordinated community murals, co-founded the White Stone Artist Collective, and supported various art initiatives. Schnurr exhibits at Headwaters Arts Gallery and participates in the annual Guelph Studio Tour.
In 2019, she retired from teaching to focus on her studio work, embracing her creative path with gratitude and humility.
Anne Schnurr’s paintings use dramatic shadows and captivating contrasts to create an expression of immediacy and intrigue. She is inspired by abstract realism and uses, both, figures and landscapes to inspire her paintings. As an avid traveler, Anne uses photography to chronicle ideas, bringing her photos back to the studio where she, then, develops and reinterprets her observations. Her paintings allow for a unique blend of abstraction and realism with imagery that is consistently anchored by striking shapes and shadows. Anne believes that art is essential for connecting people and uses painting as a vehicle for transformation.