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Artist Statement
A self taught artist, my creative practice has evolved alongside a lifelong love of art, interior design, fashion, folklore, storytelling, photography and textiles. Since childhood I've been drawn to the imaginative and ornate world of decoration and elements of beauty found in everyday life. As well as being influenced by the great still life, landscape and impressionist artists, my formative years were enriched by the opportunity to explore a broad range of creative pursuits during university, where I studied fashion and textile design.
Today, I practice as both an illustrative textile designer and traditional artist through the medium of painting, primarily working with acrylic, soft pastel and oil sticks, and moving between abstract, semi-abstract and still life subjects. My paintings are defined by a soft, feminine palette of pastels and earth tones, evoking a quiet tension between expressive marks of bold colour, and ethereal, dreamlike shapes and poignant vignettes created by layering.
Theme: ENCHANTMENT
My approach to creating abstract work is fluid, a process of constantly building up and washing back. Form emerges and dissolves again, blending layers of translucent media that mimic dreamlike atmospheres and shifting light. Nothing is fixed - a mark arrives and softens. A shape appears and begins to fade, leaving an impressionist memory or fragment that forms a tapestry of emotive marks and movement within the frame.
I find poetry in nature constantly. The quiet drama of colour settling against the ground at dusk, the majestic vastness of the ocean or mountainous horizon. Light moves across an ancient and enduring landscape, changing it's colour and dissolving it from view, only for the cycle to begin again.
I'm less interested in documenting a place than in capturing how it feels to be inside it. I return to the same quiet moments not to capture them, but to stay inside them a little longer.
— Annie Everingham, Waratah, New South Wales
