Anne Winstanley Wood

Anne creates joyful, mixed media landscapes characterised by layers of gorgeouscolours, expressive mark making and rich texture. Her whimsical, fairytale-like landscapes stem from fond childhood memories exploring wild hills, moors and becks surrounding her northern mill hometown – an imaginative, storytelling world which she now reinterprets through her uplifting, magical scenes of little houses and angular trees. By tapping into her northern roots, Anne’s work explores themes of identity, belonging and time.

Using acrylic paint, ink, collage, oil sticks and soft pastels, Anne’s abstracted compositions evolve through a layered process to achieve rich, tactile surfaces to evoke weathered rocks, ancient stone walls and distant hills and mirror the passage of time and the imprint of human endeavours on the landscape.