Wellington-based artist Anna Stichbury works across a range of media, specialising in contemporary mixed media paintings featuring vibrant, intense hues, rich textures, and gestural brushwork.
The large scale of Stichbury’s abstract seascapes, landscapes, and floral compositions draws the viewer in, emphasising and inviting engagement with her true subjects: colour and texture.
Through this latest body of work, Stichbury explores notions of familiarity, discovery, and perception. The paintings are a sensory reflection of time spent in our collective confinement, and the resulting observation and closer inspection of her local surroundings, calling the beauty and colour that exists there back to the studio and utilising what she sees as an escape from the otherwise grey world beyond. Alongside abstracts in brilliant gold and azure blues, included in Nature Unfolding are new floral works, shifting Stichbury’s previous small-scale botanical investigations into larger-than-life blooms that reverberate with her gestural areas of texture and exquisite palette.
Nature Unfolding will be on display at Parnell Gallery from
29 March until 12 April
