'Painting water was actually something I came across as a means to paint bright sunlight, which is still the core concern of my work....'
From across a room, Holly Anderson’s paintings appear to swim in the brightness of a clear sky. A new body of work presents the artist’s ongoing investigation into painting the Sun. Dazzling bursts of negative space populate her familiar subject matter. Swimming pools, bedclothes and curtained windows become gridded planes pierced with white light.
These high contrast compositions develop a new visual language for the brilliance of sunlight in Australian landscape.
Artwork:
Holly Anderson
Pool (the broken window), 2022
oil on panel
120 x 110 cm
