There’s a snappy piece of social commentary in a Woody Allen movie about the late and great Charlie Chaplin having kids when he was eighty.

I will find an image that I really like, carry it around with for me for while, until I find another image or object that I feel is compatible with that original idea, and then fuse them together.

The retort being, “Yeah sure he did, the problem was he couldn’t pick them up.”

Anne Warren (nee Sampsonidis) is an artist, but was not as old as Chaplin when she had kids.

If she had this article would be front page news.

No, Warren had them first and then took up her passion for art once they had all grown up and left home.

Warren being a woman makes her situation with child rearing vastly different to Chaplin, who was a man of course and, let’s not forget, a man very much of his time.

Warren is exhibiting her new work with a group of five other women in a show titled ‘Connections’ at the Cambridge Studio Gallery in Collingwood, Melbourne.

But other than being a woman Warren was also brought up at a particular time in history.

“Like many people, being a kid in the 70s, as well the high school I went to, I didn’t know you could go to art school,” she said.

“The traditional thing for me to do after I graduated was to do office work.”

Back then Warren did get married; this was followed by children, but she always kept her passion for art in the background.

“As soon as I was free of those responsibilities, I took up an art course at RMIT in 2002,” she explained.

“It also greatly helped that my husband was very encouraging,” Warren continued.

Warren warmly pointed out that she is not another hobbyist artist who only does water colours of landscapes.

“The best way to describe my work is that it’s a juxtaposition of different images, ideas and materials,” Warren said.

“I will find an image that I really like, carry it around with for me for while, until I find another image or object that I feel is compatible with that original idea, and then fuse them together.”

“Well welcome to the art world,” I say, because it certainly needs more mature artists with a true experience of life.

Opposed to yet another young artist full of hype, who rarely knows anything about anything and is notorious for flippantly giving up their art ghost by the time they are thirty.

The exhibition runs from September 29 to October 16 with opening drinks on Saturday October 2, from 2-4pm.

For more information, visit: www.cambridgestudiogallery.com.au