Anna Cameron has recently shifted focus in her work, abandoning the representational and allowing for colour and brushstroke to construct the painting. It is the balance of these elements that sets the mood or tone of the painting, as well as creates the rhythm or movement or the simple quiet of the painting.

She has always been fascinated with the changing earth – with shifts in the earth plates, or other geological events leaving their marks and altering the layout of the land. These marks are like souvenirs of events passed … and likewise in her paintings the layering of colour and marks of brushstoke are representations of past events or moments that together shape the outcome and form the image. Like a quilt made by a coming together of fabrics – each with their own history or story to tell, souvenirs of time gone by.

Anna Cameron studied painting at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, graduating in 1997.