Anna works now mostly in multimedia collage on a large paper format. The pieces here are in the two by three foot range and combinations of collage, drawing and painting.
Her work, although based in natural images, is more about her feelings for the Sweden (and the ocean) she left many years ago. In her own words: "My works are personal expressions and interpretations of places held dear to me. They are attempts to capture the emotional impact of landscape on me through colour, line and nuances of empty and filled space. They are not pictorial exactitudes of specific times and places.
Why boats and water?
I was born and grew up in a port city in Sweden, immediately adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. Such central images from my childhood have formed, over the years, a ground or conceptual framework from which my artistic inquiries may find a freer rein. Such impressions of sea, salt-wind and boats ... remain as fundamental memories that I return to for understanding. While serving as focal symbols for many of my current concerns, they are also 'channel vehicles' for my emotional states: joy and serenity; anxiety and fear; longing and desire.
Boats are for me a metaphor for human vulnerability - the evidence of man's day-to-day struggle for survival. They stand as noble epitaphs to our endurance with honour despite our short temporal existence. Boats are basic - they give meaningful context for Death, Belonging, Escape, Security.
The artistic challenge is to create with integrity, meaningful conceptual expressions of those landscape forces that shape my emotional and intellectual self.
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