Collection: Anna Morris : Painter : Somerset

My work explores the transformative effect of light, investigating mark-making and referencing landscape through drawing, painting and collage. I aim to create works that evoke the experience of visual phenomena, of atmospheric light and luminosity.  My work is rarely specific to a particular place but informed by memory.  There’s an element of nostalgia for the sea, connected to childhood memories of the Welsh coast and rekindled when I moved to Somerset 6 years ago. 

I make painted surfaces through a range of experimental means, some are ink or oil soaked, marked by etching and scoring.  Some are dipped and rollered with household or spray paint then abraded back to reveal the layers.  I will often incorporate fragments of prints such as monoprint, dry point and collagraph and some papers are a decade old before they find their rightful place in a composition.  I collate and sift, select and combine, layering and occasionally wrapping with thread to articulate the surface of my work.’