Anne Hignell - 2022
Anne is a contemporary landscape painter whose loosely based, semi abstract style is arrived at by using layers of mixed media including acrylic and charcoal. She is inspired by a colour, a strong contrast of light or perhaps a complex linear quality.
Observational sketches and photographs are used as resources and once an initial concept comes to mind, Anne covers the canvas in a random and intuitive way, adding layers of medium to explore ideas. She then edits the work by pushing back some areas and pulling forward others, adding more layers and detail, until a balanced composition has been reached.
Anne's recent paintings are based on a local river, and in these she has explored the ideas of surfaces, depths, reflections, movement and stillness, throughout the changing seasons.