Annie Tempest

Annie Tempest was born in Zambia in 1959 and has lived and worked in Norfolk for more than thirty years, from a studio at Stibbard. She was educated at Rye St Antony School in Oxford and at St Mary's School, Ascot. Her first book, How Green are your Wellies?, appeared in 1985 and led to the strip Westenders in the Daily Express, followed by The Yuppies in the Daily Mail from 1985 to 1993, for which the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain named her Strip Cartoonist of the Year. Her strip Tottering-by-Gently has run in Country Life since 1993, and in 2009 the Cartoon Art Trust gave her the Pont Award for her portrayal of the British character. Alongside the cartoons she works as a sculptor, in bronze, terracotta, marble and cast resin, and as a painter, and she describes herself as an artist with three minds: cartoonist, sculptor and expressionist figurative painter. She opens her Stibbard studio for North Norfolk Open Studios. She sells directly from her studio at Stibbard, where visitors are welcome by arrangement. Her Tottering-by-Gently work has its own website at totteringbygently.com.