Welcome to Devon Artist Anje Yelf's Website.

Anje is a British artist who resides in Devon. Living in the westcountry offers fabulous opportunities for an artist. Excellent light and an extensive variety of landscapes and seascapes. Painting subjects are mainly landscape but include seascape, botanical and still-life. Prefered painting mediums are oil paints and watercolours.

Intentions are to develop an eclectic website, which will contain something of interest for anyone.

A synopsis of each topic is listed below.

Art Portfolio

A range of art work including townscape, landscape, seascape and still-life in various mediums including watercolours, oil paints, pencil drawings, ink silhouettes and trompe l'oeil.

Degree Project

A synopsis of the project Anje undertook to achieve a BSc Computing Degree with first-class honours.

Kitchen Renovation

A diary about Anje's edwardian town house kitchen renovation. Including several helpful tips used to help the schedule run with less stress.

Garden

Devoted to the flora and creatures that thrive throughout the seasons in the courtyard and small front garden of Anje's 1907 Edwardian Terraced property. A special page is devoted to the various garden spiders found within this garden and home; a 'what's in flower' diary;beneficial garden insects; plants that survive in the garden with slugs and snails and helpful information for planting in a courtyard garden that faces north.

Newton Abbot

Interesting webpages on the traditional market town of Newton Abbot in Devon, including its architecture, places to visit and walk.

Links

A page containing links to various websites of topical interest and wildlife conservation. Including 'Devon Artist Network', Butterfly Conservation, Email client 'Mozilla Thunderbird', Formula 1 and more....


IMPORTANT NOTICE

Please note that all images displayed on this website are copyrighted. All rights reserved. Permission to use any image for any purpose must be obtained before use. Any link (reciprocal or otherwise) must strictly be to this website.



Favourite Books:

The Dalai Lama
'An Open Heart Practising Compassion in Everyday Life'.

Jung Chang
'Wild Swans'.

Spike Milligan
'Milligan's War'.

Interesting quotes:

Charles Horton Cooley
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

Lin Yutang
"Champion the right to be yourself. Dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life and follow your own star."

Attention Students:

Students must use the 'Harvard System of Referencing' when using any image or quote from this website.