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ABOUT ANNE FONTENOY
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. In this art studio most of the work was pasting by hand, the balloons
and “thinks” bubbles of text, either typed or hand written, onto the artwork for
comics and teenage magazines published by 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 hand drawn 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 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: Open University Business School) 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 mostly silk and natural fabrics although she will sometimes work with quality synthetics. She also designs surface decoration such as silk painting, embroidery and beadwork. Her creative work as a visual 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 & DESIGN
Enquiries for trade orders are welcome and trade discounts may be offered for some products if they are bought in quantity. I am also open to offers for selling my prints, paintings and drawings through shops or galleries.
I will also consider enquiries for apparel and surface decoration designs as well as visual art (produced either by hand or on the computer) for business and commercial use.