Hidden Layers

Annie Luke Turner is a full-time artist whose work is inspired by landscape.  The research widely encompasses the natural and built – landscape; the places and spaces themselves; the spiritual and cultural landscape – the stories and people of those places; the emotional landscape.  Annie endeavours to capture how she feels in those spaces, reflecting her own life and the transformational process of making the work.

Time is spent visiting and sketching the chosen place.  The work is delved into and abstracted back at the studio.  An analysis of mark making and problem solving evolve through the layering of mixed media.  Sketch book work and emotional memories are the studies.  Selected elements are filtered into the final painting.

Annie’s latest work focuses on an old stone barn at Kendal Fell in Cumbria. It’s easy to walk past and not see the elaborate 16th century windows which have been long since filled in. Looking into the history of this place reveals it was the home of the Briggs family who fought their cousins in the English Civil War. They lost, and the house was taken from them. Now it sits on the hill and is a refuge for the sheep in the winter months.