Ann Arnold Telfer, (4 January 1936 – 28 December 2015) was an English fine art and figurative artist and a member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists. Ann Arnold was born in

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, and studied at

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(1956–1959). Her father, Edmund Telfer, was a naval architect. From 1959 to 1969 Arnold worked as an art therapist, and founded the Association of Art Therapists. She married fellow artist

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in 1961. She was a founder member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists in 1976 with him, Sir Peter Blake,

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, Annie Ovenden and

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. Both Anne and Graham were based in

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for a number of years after 1975, before settling in the Redlake Valley of southern

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. Arnold mainly worked in oil on canvas and watercolour. In 1981 she illustrated ''Claire's Countryside'' and also designed covers for editions of the Arden Shakespeare series. She was an Academician of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Art. She died on 28 December 2015, and interred at St Mary's Church in Chapel Lawn,

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External links

Brotherhood of Ruralists web site''Homage To Eve'' Brotherhood of Ruralists show at Wiltshire Heritage Museum
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