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© Anne Launcelott 2007

Anne was born in Nottingham, England and immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of 3.  She received her first camera at the age of 14, and has had a love of photography ever since. She has always pursued a variety of artistic expressions all her life. She attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design from 1978 until 1983, when she started her family.

Anne started out studying weaving, being lured by the colour and texture of the various yarns, but ended up majoring in ceramics. She used clay as an art form, hand building objects, texturing the surface and then using colourful slips and glazes to decorate them.

As her children grew up, she recorded their growth and activities mainly in black and white photography and set up a darkroom to develop her own prints.

From 2000 until 2004, Anne was the event photographer for a Halifax breast cancer fund raiser called Titz’n Glitz.

She has made colour photography the main focus of her artistic expression since 2005 after being introduced to Miksang contemplative photography by its developer and teacher Michael Wood. “Miksang” is a Tibetan word meaning “Good Eye”.  Michael best explains it by saying: “The “good” part is that our world, just as it is, is inherently rich and vivid. The “eye” part is that working with the practice of contemplative photography, we can tune into these qualities of our world.”