2020 BARABOO~OIL PAINTING, MIXED MEDIA, BOOK ILLUSTRATION ANNE HORJUS PHOTO CREDIT, PHOTO CHRISTINA BEAM CHRISTINA CHRISTINA BEAM

ANNE HORJUS

LEFT: SITTING IN THE SUNLIGHT, ANNE PAINTS IN HIS STUDIO. PHOTO CREDIT, PHOTO CREDIT,

Just the Facts! Anne Horjus- Anne Horjus Art - Baraboo

Artist medium: Oil paint on hand-built emotion by letting my brain wander off in Equipment used: canvas / hand-built wood panel and on canvas, but I also work a million directions. Whether it is a birch panels/ oil paint, (Talents, in acyclic paint, mixed media and carve landscape, a portrait, or a puppet, the Rembrandt) Arabian gum turpentine, and and sew for my puppets. story is most important. I love connecting walnut oil Large variety of brushes. different kinds of art together such as Favorite tools: Coffee-cup, make-up Primary method of working: realistic music/ performance/visual art. Once I cleaning wedges (because they are the best landscape painting. start creating my concept, I look at it as a tool to wipe off a mistake or pre-oil a process of constantly adjusting until it surface) – Sennheiser sound canceling Favorite surface/technique treatment: matches what is in my head. Bluetooth headset, I love creating stories or expressing an

EXTERIOR PHOTO DURING THE ANNE ENTERTAINS A SMALL FALL ART TOUR “OFFICIAL 2019 FALL ART TOUR CHILD WITH A WORK PUPPET GREETER” AT THE FRONT DOOR Where do you find your person or through online What kind of music or Inspiration, visual or resources. playlists do you like to otherwise? People/Artists who have listen to while working in inspired my art: Amongst my your studio? Visual inspiration: Currently I favorite painters are Jan van am inspired by the gorgeous Eijck, Albert Bierstadt, Bach, Schubert, central Wisconsin area. But Rembrandt van Rijn, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, since my schooling is in Salomon van Ruysdael, Brahms, Mozart, Wagner, classical vocal performance, I Leonardo da Vinci, Joseph Mahler, Beethoven, Cecilia always hear music when I Mallord William Turner. I Bartoli, Frits Wunderlich, paint. I love to connect a take many photographs of Glenn Gould, Dietrich piece of art to a poem or the my subjects; I study those and Fischer-Dieskau, Jessye lyrics to a song. often manipulate them to get Norman, Mstislav Visual techniques used in my the composition and color Rostropovich, Fleetwood art: When I paint I create scheme that I am looking for. Mac, Eva Cassidy, Paul many layers that I just keep My illustration work is a Simon, Van Morrison, correcting until I am satisfied combination of fantasy and Hozier, Rolling Stones, Elton with the process and the end everything I have visually John, Pink Floyd, Hozier, result. Creating art should be studied. Shawn Colvin, Ella a challenge and something Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, that makes me better at what Bonnie Raid, Queen, The I do. My art needs to contain Beatles, Adele, Coldplay, Billy a story and often this creates Joel, Eagles, Sia, Bob Dylan, some kind of movement in Sam Smith, Adam Levine, my work. Billie Eilish, Bruno Mars, Research which has inspired Beyonce, Eric Clapton, Frank my art: I’ve learned a lot from Sinatra, John Mayer, Lady doing research on the history Gaga, Haim, Phil Collins, U2, of painting and picking the and anything I can dance to. brains of colleagues either in UPON MY PILLOW SAFE IN BED

A HANDMADE PUPPET (PHOTO CREDIT, CHRIS FRIESEN) Artist Conversation! Let’s Learn a Little More...

Tell us a little bit about yourself How do you keep things fresh and how you came to be living and your mind engaged? life the you are today? My mind is often in a million places. I was born and raised in the There are so many things that have northernmost province of the my interest. As a part-time children’s Netherlands, one of the 12 provinces librarian, it exposes me to some of the Netherlands called Friesland brilliant children’s literature, and I with its own Friesian language and could not live without the daily ILLUSTRATION FROM interaction with any person under 10. dialects. Most of my youth I spend ‘LEONARDO DREAMS OF HIS There is so much knowledge in a 32 only a mile away from the coast. The FLYING MACHINE' huge intimidating cloud formations page children’s book whether it is that constantly change the light on about worm’s body parts or the the flat landscape as they rolled in mechanics and history of a toilet. from the sea and the many different This knowledge you do not find in kinds of birds that used the coast as any adult library department and if it their route to warmer weather where is it will be a paragraph in. 1000+ a major inspiration for me. I spend page informational books. My goal in many hours driving my bike through life is to connect the dots to do what this landscape, playing in the fields I love with my favorite people within and exploring the shore as a child. arm’s reach. Because the sea climate came with FAIRFIELD MARSH rainy days, thick fogs and harsh winds, my 3 artistically gifted siblings, and I had shared many favorite indoor activities, like drawing and painting, making music and creating things. lesson on how to handle this thing called life. Stop fighting the current and go with the flow. I fell completely in love with the medium.

RIGHT: ANNE AND HIS DOG VIEW OF THE BARABOO RIVER

GUESTS VISITING ANNE’S STUDIO DURING OTTER CREEK THE 2019 FALL ART TOUR Tell us a little bit about your Where can we find your work studio space, where you make and learn more? your art! Social media is a huge part of how I I emigrated with my family in 2003 to market my work, it helps me creating a Baraboo, where we purchased a relationship with my audience. My beautiful Queen Anne home that was platforms are linked to my website. All built in 1897. My illustration studio my art is posted on Instagram and ILLUSTRATION FROM with drawing tables and lightboxes is Facebook. The giclee prints of most ‘LEONARDO DREAMS OF on the first floor but my landscapes I of my oil landscapes are printed in HIS FLYING MACHINE' move on an easel from the living to the Chicago. Original work and prints have porch and back. I have a utility card been shipped though out the world. that comes along everywhere I paint. I My latest picture books have been a most enjoy painting on my screened-in huge game changer. Sleep was porch. When I was younger, I did a lot projected at The Kennedy Center and more plein air painting. However, I at the Royal Concert Hall of want to be comfortable when I paint Amsterdam among other places. since most of my work takes many Leonardo Dreams of his Flying days to complete. Machine was launched on Leap Day of 2020. VIEW FROM THE CRANE FOUNDATION

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GIBRALTAR ROCK - THE WISDOM OF SILENCE ABOVE: TWO PHOTOS OF A FEW DIFFERENT STAGE PERFORMANCES FEATURING ANNE’S ARTWORK AND ILLUSTRATION