Anne Hignell - 2023
Anne is a contemporary landscape painter whose loosely based, impressionistic 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. With an idea in mind, 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.
Her recent paintings are based on memories of the sunny hazy days of the first lock down when Anne spent hours working and sitting in her garden.