Anne
Schreivogl

Anne Schreivogl was born and raised in Seattle and received her BFA from Western Washington University in Bellingham in 1994. She also attended the Seattle Academy of Fine Art — now Gage Academy — as an arts grant recipient of the Anacortes Arts Foundation, and studied with Northwest painter Alfred Currier from 1998 to 2002. Her studio practice is primarily acrylic; she also paints plein air oil landscapes in an Impressionistic mode. She carries a sketchpad consistently — through study in France, teaching English in Japan, and a bicycle crossing of the United States.

The subjects are birds on wires, animals in repose, figures caught mid-gesture — everyday moments rendered with flat, saturated color and clean edge decisions. Her last name, Schreivogl, is German for “screeching bird,” and she is, by her own account, allergic to birds; they appear throughout her paintings anyway.

Her first art museum solo, “Meditative Exuberance,” opened at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in March 2018. She has been selected “Best of the West” for the Northwest by Southwest Art magazine (August 2006) and featured in American Art Collector (October 2009). Her work is in the collections of the Seattle Aquarium, Island Hospital, Anacortes Public Library, and Lambiel Museum.

With my art, I seek to transmit the joy I see and feel in everyday moments onto canvas. Birds perched on wires, chicks with sticks knitting away, and jazz musicians are common motifs. My last name, ‘Schreivogl,’ means ‘screeching bird,’ and birds often find their way into my art.