Anne Ricker

Anne Ricker has been drawing and painting since she was a small child. She tried majoring in art but felt stifled by the routine, so pursued degrees in language and medieval studies while she worked at Random House in New York. “Most medieval artists did not sign their work,” she notes, “because it is the image and not the response that matter, not who did them.” She will sign her work if asked, however.

Her language skills worked well for the many years she traveled and worked for various university presses, where many scholars wanted their work published in English. She painted and drew by day, edited by night, and had several shows in Oslo, Tunis, DC, etc.

In 1980 Anne returned to the Pacific Northwest where she was born during WWII and has remained on the Olympic Peninsula painting, making paper, and creating objects with drift, root, and paper in her gallery/workshop in the little old Quilcene Quaker Church that she and her husband Scott Abbott restored.

Scott and Anne fish, forage, garden and adore their serene life on Quilcene Bay with the herons, seals, swans, and sunrises.