Anna
Mahoney
Over the
past seven years Anna Mahoney has worked as a Visual Art Teacher at Pulteney
Grammar School, where she has spent the majority of her time creating and
facilitating the Junior Visual Art program. Anna has a lifelong love of
creating visual art and considers herself a practicing artist.
As attested to
by Anna’s portfolio, she has worked with most media but is beginning to prefer
working with oil paints. Apart from her love of art, and belief in fostering
the creativity of children, she has also taught children aged 3-12 years art,
craft, yoga and guided imagery in a private business setting, and has found
this experience both challenging and satisfying.
Anna enjoys encouraging
children and adults to discover and create art, and this is what motivated her
to extend her teaching capacity through further study so that she could apply
it within a school context. Anna has also written and illustrated two
children’s books (yet to be published) and she exhibits her work on a regular
basis.
Conservation
Statement
“I believe that the
capacity of children to learn in school is increased through a creative arts
curriculum and I aspire to provide an environment in which children know they
can explore and fulfill the creative potential they bring to the classroom.
Hence, I regard the creative arts as fundamental to the optimal intellectual,
social and physical development of children.”
Creating for Conservation
Anna is exhibiting in the Creating for Conservation Art Exhibition 2012. The pieces [pictured] are representative of her work. The
pieces Anna chooses to exhibit will be available for purchase at the
C4C2012 Exhibition only [no online sales]. Proceeds from C4C2012 are
dedicated to Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust - Zambia. Please come along on the opening night on
2nd November or over the weekend 2nd November to 4th November to see Anna’s
work and that of the other fantastic contributing Artists.
