Statement
Anna Wilson-Patterson’s current work explores her fascination with the haunting coastal landscape between Hastings and Dungeness. Fishermen’s shacks, rusted boats, railway carriages and groynes punctuate the open vistas of shingle, grass, sand and sea. Walking her elegant greyhounds daily at dawn and dusk she experiences the seasons change.
“I begin each painting with a focal point and composition lines, blocking in areas of colour. I use knives to apply the paint, scraping and mark-making with objects that come to hand. I work on several paintings at once; over the weeks as the paint dries, I add more layers of colour and texture. My gestures of adding, dragging and removing paint imitate the natural world, the tidal ebb and flow, the movement of clouds and wind. I am drawn to places where the human presence is humbled by the forces of nature. I also enjoy monoprinting, line drawings with surprising textures”
Anna is a qualified art teacher and has worked in community settings since 1991. She opened Arts Hut selling her own and other local artists work in 2007. She currently sells her paintings & prints online and at galleries & fairs in the South of England.
