Ann Cohen

I Do See You Three Ann Cohen

Live music artist. I have the passion of the pen to draw the moment. I started drawing music and people around the Bay Area in the late eighties. Thousands of local and well-known bands in around San Francisco, California, along the coast to British Columbia and over to Europe in Berlin, Paris and beyond have been caught by my pen. I take a moment to hear the music dance through me while the hand goes to the paper and logs the moment. Always on the hunt for the next draw in restaurant café or just where I am. My late husband, Allen Cohen, was a well-known poet and the editor, founder of the San Francisco Oracle. I illustrated two of Allen's books of poems: The Book of Hats and Like a Radiant White Dove both published by Regent Press. My work is in many private collections and has appeared in Beatitude Magazine, Relix Magazine and Split Shift and in various CD's of the musician's that I have drawn.




I Draw the Line in the Night

Feeling the taste of the moment

Eyes on me and I use to close book

And leave the room

No More

I sit and draw,

I'm in our living room

Enjoying you



When a person is in a social environment that requires one to be very quiet, and if this person needs to be busy all the time, pen and paper is a best friend.