Angharad Dean left a long and successful career as a planner to take up her long time ambition to paint in oils.  Angharad’s career as a planner culminated in the publication of the Canberra Spatial Plan – the long term strategy for the future of Australia’s capital city. Her focus has shifted from creating a vision of the future. From working with people and landscape to integrate the two in harmony, she now focuses on the immediacy of light, colour and movement. With her feet now planted very firmly in the present she uses colour to create images that invite the viewer to step into the landscapes she depicts.

Angharad uses oils to capture fleeting impressions of light and colour.  She says ‘I spend my days enjoying the view – I concentrate on recording the shifting colours of nature as they are in the moment I see them.’ 

Angharad also works with oils to produce still life and portrait paintings, all in the impressionist style she has adopted.  She accepts commissions and welcomes visitors to her studio to view her other works.

Angharad took up the paintbrush in 2005 and since then, fitting her painting around the needs of her 5 year old son and 13 year old daughter, she has completed over 70 works.

Angharad prefers to work outside at the scene of her painting, but weather and time do not always allow for paintings to be completed in this way.  Her studio allows her the flexibility to work on more than one painting at a time in all weathers.

She is (still) married to her webmaster.