About the Artist - Original Painting Self Portrait - by Elaine Anagnos, Painter of Cats and People



	As a child in Massachusetts, Elaine Anagnos remembers drawing
	her own cartoons and asking her mother if "anyone would buy them".
	She did not get serious about her artwork until many years later
	when she moved to New York City and studied with an instructor
	who emphasized impressionism. Again -- another interruption when
	when she started her own meeting planning business in New York.
	Since moving to St. Petersburg in 1991, however, she devotes full
	time to art, which sometimes includes teaching at The Arts Center
	and making one-of-a-kind jewelry and T-shirts.

	Elaine is a signature member of the Florida Watercolor Society
	and is represented in many private collections throughout the U.S.,
	Canada and Great Britain. Her art is always on view at
"Self Portrait with Friends"	A Little Room for Art in Historic Pass-A-Grille, Florida,
	an artists' cooperative of which she is a founding member. She
	lives in St. Petersburg with her husband, dog and two cats.


	Florida:
		The Arts Center
		The von Liebig Art Center
		Appleton Museum of Art
		Dunedin Fine Art Center Gallery
		St. Pete Beach Art Institute
		Salt Creek Artworks
		Pinellas County Arts Council at Ruth Eckerd Hall
		Mattison's (2-Woman Show)
		Largo Cultural Center
		Suntan Art Gallery (3-Woman Show)
		Mahaffey Theater
	New York City:
		Limner Gallery



		Florida Watercolor Society
		Artspring/Pasadena
		Treasure Island Art Guild
		St Pete Beach Art Institute
		Suntan Art Gallery