Charity Ann's Biography

Charity Ann is a lifelong artist and painter. Starting at the age of two she decided to brighten up the side of her parents’ house with a roller full of blue paint that was soaking in a bucket of water in the yard. 

Throughout her young life report cards came home saying "Charity doodles too much, doesn't pay attention to class and was caught drawing, again." Her parents realized they had a wily artisit on their hands and something had to be done!

At 9 years old they enrolled Charity into the San Diego school of creative and preforming arts. From there her skills took a leap under the careful and kind eyes of several art teachers. The youngest student at the age of 12 to be placed into an advanced self-disciplined class she began to get awards and acknowledgement for her unusual style.

Formally trained in traditional art like Goyo, Rembrandt, Frida, Raphael, Durer and other greats, she quickly mastered the classical styles of realism and sped on to illustration after her first weekend at the infamous San Diego Comic con. 

At 15 she dragged her portfolio to the comic mecca and met masters like Stan Lee who told her “Never give it up, you've got the eye and the grit. "

At 18 she joined the Navy as a Hospital corpsman, and was stationed on the kitty Hawk CV 63. The art never stopped. She adorned the passageway bulkheads with scenes of the Navy.

Constantly working towards improvement, and growing skills she was a founder of the Sketch Book Sessions in 2012. Growing from 5 friends from all levels of skill to a serious school of study in form, style and life drawing until she moved to Colorado in 2015.

Charity's work has been shown in galleries throughout San Diego. Often preforming as a live arts painter, teaching the foundations of art and painting and finally showing in traditional gallery at the Sangre Di Cristo museum of art in Pueblo, CO for two years with the "Own your own art" exhibit. 

Still pushing the ink and paint she is now calling Huerfano County her home after 7 years of living off grid with her mother in Fort Garland, CO where the art creation never stopped.

She is proud to be a part of The Park Side Gallery family. Now she is cocreating works of art with her husband Jimmy, when they aren't riding the rocky trails of the local peaks with their horses.

When asked what advice to give aspiring creatives she replied. "Refrain from imitation, and create from the heart."