Compelled courage Painting

ARTIST BIO Born and raised initially in the United States, prior to relocating to Australia during her early childhood, Melbourne contemporary artist Anya Love produces distinguishing and enigmatic works that interweave abstract and representational art forms. Balancing innate shapes with highly conceptualised renderings, these elements are depicted in a state of beautified distortion to portray themes of interconnectivity, duality and expansion. Describing a responsive and acclimatised state of existence on the canvas, and summarising stories that resonate with her internal self, her works embody these narratives through an intense degree of mark making, organic gesturing and colour layering. After acquiring a Diploma in Visual Arts, Anya went on to train in design, prior too commencing a career in the photography industry. During her fifteen-year tenure, she spent considerable time styling and methodically executed the expression of form and composition. These experiences have since become a resounding force behind the works she presently produces, and photography remains an integral component of her creative process as she shoots each independent layer of each work. Remaining unbound to a single artistic methodology, she instead directs her focus largely towards the emotional sensations that naturally materialise throughout the developmental process. Her works are frequently rotated during their creation to ensure each phase is worked on from four distinct perspectives, with the final orientation revealing itself in the work’s concluding stages. Anya currently accepts commissions and creates her works full-time inside her Melbourne-based studio. “My hope is to create visual poetry that will move you & invoke a personal connection.” Anya Love