When Ann Dowker first visited Egypt in the early 2000s she discovered a place that so enthralled her with its natural splendour and human activity that she decided to spend a large part of her life there and allow the place and its people to be the major subject of her work as an artist. She bought a house on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor and now lives and works there with, and within, the community for long periods of the year.