ARTIST STATEMENT

Born and raised along the Susquehanna River in Columbia, the river has been a source of inspiration my whole life.  As I child, I was always painting and drawing my surroundings, and was encouraged by my Art teachers to pursue my desire to paint. Presently, I paint with a group of plein aire ("out in the open air") painters, including J.D. Wissler, who has been my mentor. The rivers and lakes around where I live, with their ever changing qualities, bring a freshness to my painting that simply cannot be captured in the studio.  I find pleasure in communicating the beauty I see, capturing it on panel or paper.  

As I explore two very different mediums in oils and in watercolors, I find the essence is the same, but the language is different.  Oil painting is more of a struggle, while watercolor happily does it's own thing, making the process fun.  Inside "plein aire" painting features fruit and flowers as the subject rather than the landscape - the experience of water becomes part of the process, rather than the subject.  A. Strickler 2007

RESUME

EDUCATION
1957 Columbia High School, Columbia, PA
1967-1969 York Academy of Arts, York, PA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007
Art of the State, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA
Lancaster Open Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2006
Lancaster Open Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Members' Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
2005
Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA
Arts in the Park, Elizabethtown, PA

PRESS RELEASES

Paul Flury and Annie Strickler, Water; Lynden Gallery, September 2008