CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT ARTIST

10+ years of experience in interior & architectural design and tattooing
 

Anna Survivor is a contemporary abstract artist working primarily with painting and mixed media. Her artistic practice has developed alongside more than a decade of professional work as a tattoo artist and her ongoing work in interior and architectural design.

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Her background in different visual disciplines has shaped the way she understands form, space, proportion, detail and material. Each practice has its own language and limitations, but together they have become part of the way she sees and creates.

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The name Anna Survivor is deeply personal. It reflects a life shaped by difficult experiences, having to build her own path and repeatedly begin again. Survivor is not about being invincible or constantly fighting. It is about moving through difficult things without losing yourself.

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MY PRACTICE

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I came to painting through other forms of visual work, but painting gave me something I had not experienced in the same way before: complete freedom.

When I work on a painting, I don't have to start with a clear idea of what the final image should be. I don't work from a client, a function or a predetermined result. I can choose the colour, material, tool, scale and direction as I go.

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I usually begin with an internal state rather than a specific image. Sometimes I come to the canvas because I have been thinking too much, feeling anxious or simply need to stop thinking for a while. I don't try to illustrate those feelings. I let them become colour, texture, movement and layers.