Anne Fontenoy started to sew and draw when she was about 4 years old and she began making patterns for dresses when aged about 12 years. She trained in the 1970s in various art studios, at first as a paste-up artist in a small independent studio, Sterling Studios, who worked mostly for IPC Publications. She then had a job painting make-up with oil paints on display mannequins for a mannequin renovation company, Modreno. After that she worked for a very small company, E G Stevens, that made completely hand made belts and buttons for the couture houses, followed by a position at NCR producing artwork and flow charts for their manuals as well as hand drafted forms (pen and ink) for data entry. She then gained extensive administrative and secretarial experience in various legal and commercial firms for the first few years of her freelance design career, which started in 1981. This included 6 years as the permanent part-time temp for the editorial office of the British Journal of Surgery. Freelance activities were full time from 1987.

STUDY

She has studied Computer Graphics & DTP and has an A level in IT. She has an Open University Bachelor of Arts Open Degree with the designatory letters BA Open (Open), which is composed of study of the following courses and stand alone qualifications:

Ethics in real life; Heritage, whose heritage? 3 French courses including a Certificate in French, Cert French (Open); a Certificate in Accounting (OUBS) Cert Acc (Open) and a Diploma in Classical Studies (Classical Latin and Classical Greek language studies) Dip CS (Open).

FINE ART & DRESS DESIGN

Her creative work as a dress designer/dressmaker includes designs for ladies hand made dresses such as wedding dresses and evening dresses. She aspires to keep the tradition of couture alive, as every garment is hand crafted, specialising in silk clothes in particular wedding dresses, evening dresses and classic day wear designed using silk and natural fabrics. She also designs surface decoration, silk painting, embroidery and beadwork. Her creative work as an artist includes airbrushed images, pictures in pen & ink, pencil pictures, oil pastel pictures and other hand made pictures, as well as computer graphics. These include her ‘Digital Collection’, a range of digital images produced as note cards, greetings cards, notelets and Giclée prints.

CATALOGUES FOR HAND MADE CARDS, PRINTS & SCARVES

Mail order catalogues are available for note cards, greetings cards, notelets, Christmas cards and fine art giclée prints, hand painted silk scarves, hand beaded evening bags and head-dresses. A catalogue of over 35 original fine art pictures is now available, including Flower Pictures, and pictures of Mandalas which can all be produced as limited or open edition prints.

TRADE ORDERS

Enquiries for trade orders are welcome and some trade discounts may be offered for some products if they are bought in quantity. I am open to offers for selling my prints, paintings and drawings through shops or galleries with a commission on top of my studio prices advertised on this website.

About Anne Fontenoy

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