Exhibition Title: Coast to Country
My practice is inspired by the Australian landscape, from the shifting blues of the South Coast of NSW to the textured earth of the inland country.
Colour and texture are central to my work. Fragments of collage and veils of paint build into landscapes that are both observed and felt, shaped as much by memory and emotion as by place itself. Each work becomes a layered conversation between the immediacy of mark-making outdoors and the slower, reflective process of building depth in the studio.
Through this process, I aim to convey the energy, rhythm, and spirit of the land, where coast meets country, and raw experience transforms into a richly layered landscape.
An Ulladulla based artist who draws from the Australian landscape for inspiration.
After a career as a teacher, she found painting in her Forties.
Her work includes bold contemporary landscapes created using many mediums such as acrylic, ink, charcoal, pencil, pastel and collage.
Love of the looseness and unpredictability of marks and experimentation with colour and collage in layers, is what Ann enjoys.
Recently, Ann has been using collage in its original form as a dominant feature of her work.
She loves the rawness and simplicity of the form it creates.
Plein Air is the process of choice followed by a deconstruction and application of the painted collage pieces onto canvas back in the studio.
The immediacy of the moment and the memory etched is the only way to capture the Australian landscape in its raw and natural state.