About

Annette Hovey was offered her very first show at the young age of 16. Since then she has taught art classes at the Button Factory in Waterloo, Ontario, worked on album covers, and sold 1000’s of pieces across Canada and the United States.

Annette Hovey Says: “As far back as I can remember I loved to draw and paint. The first sales of artwork I remember was when I was 13 and I was selling portraits of the kids in the neighbourhood for 25 cents. Then in high school I would do artwork mainly around Christmas time as gifts for other kids families and the price increased.”

After high school I went on to College where I took graphic design and animation. I then found my way on to computer training at various tech schools where I was introduced to computer graphic design programs. To me it just seemed like a natural progression. I began scanning in drawings and paintings I had done, including a very small ink print that I had done by carving out an eraser to make a design of a fish. Once I had these on my system I began experimenting.

I found that not using any filters or effects was my prefrence as it left the artwork in a natural state. The peices look very similar to an oil painting.I had taken the original samples I had out to a meeting of friends because I wanted to see what they thought. And to my surprise they were all very excited about them. I started taking orders and it’s been over 9 years since that evening.I look forward to showing people the beauty of digitally manipulated photographs and digital paintings.

I now offer my acrylic and oil paintings, digital paintings, digitral manipulated photographs and photography for sale.

Quote from Annette Hovey: “Art is everywhere, around every corner looking for its next captured audience. Embrace it.”