Anna Leary

Anna creates artwork that explores the dynamics of people and place referencing her Pacific location, iconic sites and human nature. She is interested in time and transition as a fundamental part of temporal existence and aims to capture the spirit of time and place. Often moving beyond traditional perceptions of painting, she utilises found and shaped materials with combinations of oil, acrylic and mixed media. She has become synonymous with her Pacific pod works, painted over sequences of time that she arranges in formations. The artworks examine the transition in atmospheric light and colour over the nominated time frame, creating a direct visual reference to the artist's experience and observation of the passing hours, days or seasons. As a whole this series of work takes on a striking form suggestive of the geometry of nature and its Pacific location. Drawn from the symbology of a seed, each pod represents potential, the quatre formation being the inherent beauty in that being realised. “My desire as an artist is to enrich lives. I engage with the intangible; time, emotions, human experience and for me making art provides a vehicle for expressing such things."Anna Leary "Anna Leary uses the artist's palette to chart the unceasing passage of time...In this respect, Leary is an archivist of time, recording in colour the complex interplay of light on land and sea..." Anna-Marie White. Curator. The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatu "Leary paints the landscape of mind and spirit...this is elegant work." Gail Tressider - Art Reviewer