Annie Veitch is our Arts at the Albion Feature Artist this week! Annie is a figurative oil painter and steel sculptor living and working in Gravenhurst, Ontario. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2006. Her oil paintings explore the human figure and intimacies of the body while the welded steel sculptures focus on delicate organic forms and the intricacy of natural life. She uses an oxy-acetylene torch to manipulate steel, a material known for strength and rigidity, into realistic botanical objects, revealing the graceful details of twisted roots, veins of a leaf or the tiny gills on the underside of a mushroom. She finds the contradiction between subject and material both intriguing and challenging. Translating characteristics of nature into metal gives fluidity and life to a material that typically has none as well as giving strength and immortality to an often delicate subject. Her paintings portray the human figure as a beautiful object; an object capable of containing and communicating a vast emotional landscape. She creates single or multi-figured, life size paintings of female bodies against simple, subdued backgrounds. The body has its own language and speaks of emotions that every person can feel. The figures she paints are introspective, vulnerable and self- conscious. There is an emotional reaction, a reaction that is based on the viewer’s own feelings and experiences as well as their interpretation of the subjects. annieveitch/index2.php#/home/
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 12:06:40 +0000
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