ART EXHIBITION in Arty At Open Ealing
Here you have a brief compilation of photos from Friday's opening!
Thank a Lot to Mandy and everyone for coming!
The exhibition will be open until 28th of April.
Anna started to paint for her friends when she was 19, each painting meant something that connected her with that person as well as what role he or she had in Anna’s life and experiences they had lived together.
Her paintings have now evolved but she still uses many nature references in her work, which is an influence of the landscape and the environment that have seen her grow.
The meaning of the paintings are all in Anna's mind. Often you might recognize many elements that are reminiscent of flowers, vegetables, monsters, masks, people, broken hearts, watchful eyes... They are all part of Anna's, beliefs, traumas, experiences, thoughts, travels ... They are a brief representation of her attempts to decipher the world around her through the artistic expression of painting.
Her pictures will also remind you of patterns for clothing, because it is also one of the fundamental concepts behind Anna's work, to transfer her art to many forms of expression and, one of the ways, is to create a dialog that can be converted into prints for clothing.
In 2013 she started the Social Fashion Monster project at the University of Fashion Design Felicidad Duce in Barcelona. It was her final design-fashion degree project in which she created monsters that come out of the paintings she created at night while she was studying her degree.
The idea for the project came from the observation of today's world, and she found inspiration in the social, political and economic chaos that surrounds us. Her project also speaks about masks, the masks that people put on to hide from the society and feel integrated.
Using these principles as a basis, she continues making an effort to capture in her paintings and designs an alternative to the globalised intercultural world that tends to devalue creativity, standardize ideas, thoughts as well as ways of dressing.
Since the project started she has participated in numerous exhibitions, contests and festivals in the UK, Germany, New Zealand and Barcelona. This has allowed her to internationalize her project and make it evolve also in line with the chances in society through time.
