On the eve of the pandemic in 2020, Anne packed up her Melbourne studio and moved to Tower Hill in south-western Victoria. Now living on the rim of a volcano, her house is perched 30 metres from the craters edge. Middleton found the beauty of her new surrounds and the wild landscape overwhelming.
Anne says: “I was unsure how it would manifest, but I wanted and needed to paint this magnificent country of basalt spattered coast and wild weather. I felt challenged to capture the intangible atmospherics of moisture and dust, mutable, elusive, so unlike anything I had ever painted before. I have been painting in oils for 35 years, developing a meticulous and deeply personal painting practice, but my new environment has had a profound affect on my painting practice and compelled me to develop new painting techniques evocative of texture, feel and ether. Silent Atmosphere’s offers a window into the unfathomable mysteries of our gaseous atmosphere, and the patterns of its movement across this dynamic landscape.”
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