{{Short description|Canadian experimental print-maker (1926–2007)}} {{Multiple issues|{{notability|Biographies|date=March 2018}}}}
'''Ann Darbyshire''' (1926–2007) was a Canadian experimental print-maker throughout the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name="Ottawa">{{Cite web|url=https://ottawa.ca/en/residents/arts-heritage-and-culture/galleries-and-exhibition-spaces/karsh-masson-gallery/2015-exhibitions|title=2015 Exhibitions, List of artworks added in 2014 and 2015|website=City of Ottawa|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> Her artwork predominantly focused on the natural world, including insects, plants, animals, landscapes, and often ventured into abstraction and introspection. Darbyshire's residence at the Separate School Board's Holy Rosary School<ref name="Oxorn">{{cite news |last1=Oxorn |first1=Pearl |title=Working towards an Ottawa art scene |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/48817088/?terms=%22Ann%2BDarbyshire%22 |accessdate=20 April 2019 |work=The Ottawa Journal |date=3 December 1977 |location=Ottawa, Ontario |page=34}}</ref> brought the atelier-gallery structure to Ottawa's burgeoning art scene. As an active member of the arts community, she was involved in several artist-run galleries, including the new defunct Ottawa Arts Lending Library.
Darbyshire came to Ottawa from Jamaica to attend the University of Toronto where she met her husband. She had four children and died in 2007. The estate of Ann Darbyshire donated over 100 prints to the City of Ottawa, including etchings, lino-cuts, collotypes, and monotypes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ottawastart.com/public-art-program-celebrates-30-years-with-this-is-us-now-exhibit/|title=Public Art Program celebrates 30 years with This Is Us Now exhibit · OttawaStart.com|date=2015-12-10|website=OttawaStart.com|language=en-ca|access-date=2019-04-22}}</ref><ref name="Ottawa"/>
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