Henderson taught sculpture at the Edinburgh College of Art for almost twenty years and was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1973.

While a pupil at the Miller Academy, her art teacher recognised and encouraged her creative flair and was influential in persuading Ann’s parents to allow her to study sculpture.

[1] In 1941 her family had moved to a farm at Culrain in Easter Ross and it was to this property that Henderson returned as a student during her college holidays.

Picasso’s cubist approach and joy in combining materials are reflected in her large plaster and bark sculpture ‘Hen Wife’ constructed in the forest.

Bill Scott her friend and colleague wrote of Ann after her death in the RSA Annual Report 1976: “We have lost a sculptor of maturity, energy, and influence, an artist whose reticent authority and breadth of vision were above question...” Henderson exhibited regularly with the SSA and the RSA and later with the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

‘Venus and Chair’ (bronze) Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 3 artworks by or after Ann Henderson at the Art UK site