Snowgum Forest Painting

Born in Hertfordshire, England, Anthea spent a significant part of her life living, working and travelling in Central and West Africa. After University and Art School she made a living by illustrating books, teaching art and painting. Today she works from her studio in Norfolk and frequently travels to Australia to work. Anthea Eames graduated with honours from Norwich University College of the Arts in 1989, specializing in Graphics and Illustration. Today she works as a full time artist from her studio in Norfolk whilst teaching workshops and courses in painting, drawing and mixed media techniques. Ten years spent in Africa and now the generous spaces of her Norfolk home have together formed her seeing and influenced her palette. She views these landscapes as etched over with ancient tracks and earthworks, the traces of previous lives and enlivened by seasons and weather. Australia's wide, unoccupied landscape has provided her with another source. Everything there is muted by ochres and grey except for the intense blue sky and sea. Anthea's work lies between abstract and figurative moving back and forth across the boundary. She explores the contemporary use of organic materials to capture the essence of place - sourcing her own ochres and natural pigments locally, including Norfolk woad for an indigo blue. www.antheaeamesart.com