Anna Camner: Dust, Dirt and Dingy Weeds 

Anna Camner, Untitled, 2012, Oil on Board, 34 x 38 cm

Camner’s paintings are neither purely botanical, nor fantastical: not wholly naturalistic, and yet not completely symbolic. Her paintings evoke the uncomfortable world of fables, mythology and the surreal distanced just far enough from the objective verisimilitude of traditional still life or landscape painting. There is a curious synthesis to her labour, a belief that things can be brought to life by the paint that re-presents them.