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Ann Tout was born in 1941 in Weymouth. She trained at Bournemouth College of Art, obtaining a National Diploma in Design (NDD) for book illustration and lettering and the following year an Art Teachers Diploma (ATD), with Bookbinding being the main craft.
She worked as a college tutor and freelance book illustrator, drawing and engraving for several publishing houses in London. Except for book jackets, the illustrations were mainly for children's books, including wood engravings for Leonard Clark's All Things New.
As a part-time tutor, Ann takes groups for drawing, painting and printing and holds mastercraft classes to demonstrate wood engraving and the many creative possibilities of the linocut and wood engraved block when used to embellish leather bookbinding.
Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Mall Galleries, the Bankside Gallery, and the Royal West of England Academy. She holds 16 bookbinding awards and her work features in the journals of The Society of Bookbinders and Designer Bookbinders. She is a Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and of the Society of Wood Engravers.
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