Annie is a multimedia artist and Art Psychotherapist, originally from London she has now been in Melbourne living and working for 5 years.
Currently Annie mostly paint's oil portraits, that incorporate a realistic dreamy portal, with embellishments of ethereal shapes, colours and lines, boarding on abstract. The thematic colours used throughout the artwork are full of pastels and baby colours.
Spirituality, the human and psychology are the main themes of Annies work. Recent paintings explore the containment needed to be vulnerable to strengthen oneself as an individual and as a collective. Annie hopes her paintings inspire the viewer to engage with their vulnerability within their community. Annie feels this is of particular importance in a world where isolation appears to be on the rise.
The people Annie paints are invited to sit for her, share and be vulnerable in a therapeutic and safe place. She tries to capture this vulnerability through the subconscious given expression through idiosyncrasies, exposing truth and beauty. Paralleling and inspired by nature as it dares to show both its strength and fragility simultaneously, creating a compelling vision. In her artworks, Annie attempts to project her minds-eye as it converges with a heightened sense of psyche and reality.
"The art process is used to activate my internal psychic resources of symbol formation to create greater integration between divisions helping me to be awake and dance with vitality. A continuum state of fluidity, setting for change and growth. Basically art is in our human nature and I couldn't live without it.
Making things has always me a sense of containment and self-awareness, connecting the internal and external worlds. I use art materials and processes to attend to internal chaos to be formed, self-directed, and therefore, can be reformed without overwhelming. Painting enables me to listen to my inner world, while hidden, repressed material from the unconscious can be given expression through a symbolic form.
There's a constant element of vulnerability and strength displayed at the same time, through the poses of the subjects in the pictures. This is captured through expressions, idiosyncratic behaviours and even the way the artworks framed."