Ann Dinah Ovenden ( née Gilmore, born 1945, Amersham, Buckinghamshire) is a British fine artist and a founder member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists. [1] [2] She is a figurative artist.
Ovenden was educated at the Royal Wanstead School and from 1961, studied at High Wycombe School of Art. She worked as a graphic designer and painter in London, before moving to Cornwall with her then-husband Graham Ovenden in 1973.
In 1975, she was a founding member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists with Graham Ovenden, Peter Blake, David Inshaw, Ann Arnold and her husband Graham Arnold, and Jann Haworth. [3] She has been elected to the St Ives Society of Artists. [4]
Ovenden's paintings have a Romantic rural theme, for example painting portraits of inhabitants of a small Cornwall village. She has had solo exhibitions in Ludlow (1990) and Liskeard (2001). [1] She has designed theatre sets and props, including for London's Hampstead Garden Opera.