About me and my Printmaking
Printmaking
With a lifelong passion for art and printmaking technologies, an extensive collection of historic etchings and engravings accumulated over decades, as well as nearly 25 years of working in the print-publishing industry - in October 2019 I finally took my first class in relief printing, and I have been hooked ever since! I’ve been a full member at the Edinburgh Printmakers for over 2 years now, and joined its Board of Trustees in Dec 24. I have experimented with reduction and jigsaw woodcut and linocut, tried wood engraving – but keep returning to single colour linocut as I love both the look of the outcome and the immediacy of the process.
I find myself drawn to fairies and the female form, as well as to the relationship between humans and their pets, in particular cats and dogs. Born in Germany, I hold dual citizenship and have lived in Edinburgh for the biggest part of my life now. I share my life with my son, my partner Laura, 3 Ragdoll cats and many wonderful friends.
About me and my Blog
Anja Salinger-Carsley
The idea for the blog stories came about on a joint holiday more than 10 years ago. I showed Susan a funny short story I had written as a child and which had been chosen for a competition. It was about a turtle, and Susan swiftly drew the most adorable turtle - and it all grew from there!
I am German, since 2014 also British, and came to Edinburgh, Scotland 30 years ago. I love this city! I speak German with my partner, my son, some of my colleagues - but am obviously surrounded by English, love language in general, and feel more British by now. The cultural differences sometimes feature in my blog stories.
Susan Hutchison
Susan is a successful professional illustrator and artist with over 25 years experience, and she lives and works in Perth, Scotland.
She is also a great friend and has kindly provided some illustrations as well as buckets of encouragement for my blog stories. You can find out more about Susan's amazing art from her website as well as her Facebook page.
2 Cellos (1995 - 2010)
Anna Frolova-McCann and Anja Salinger-Carsley performed together at concerts, Weddings, exhibition openings, dinners and other social functions between 1995 and 2010.
Their repertoire included Baroque and Early Music, Classical, Romantic, as well as traditional folk music, Rag, Blues and modern music.
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Anna Frolova-McCann & Edinburgh Cello Studio
Anna Frolova McCann has been based in the West End of Edinburgh for over 20 years, and in addition to private tuition has taught in a number of Edinburgh schools. She has extensive experience in teaching all ages, from very young children over students to mature adults. If you are looking for lessons with a highly qualified and extremely friendly cello teacher with many years of teaching experience, please get in touch.
Anna Frolova McCann holds a Masters degree (with distinction) from the highly regarded Odessa State Conservatoire in the former USSR in three categories: as orchestral soloist, as chamber ensemble musician and for conservatoire teaching (cello). Before her Masters, she completed a first class honours degree in cello teaching and orchestral music at the Tchaikovsky Music College, Crimea/Ukraine. She has extensive orchestral experience (9 years as principal cellist with the Ukrainian Music Theatre, Crimea, and with the Yevpatoria Chamber Orchestra) and taught cello at the Tchaikovsky Music College Simferopol (Crimea) for many years. She settled in the West End of Edinburgh in 2002, and has been teaching in a number of schools as well as privately since then. In addition to her busy teaching schedule, Anna regularly performed with various chamber groups and as soloist in the UK and abroad.
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