NINE DAUGHTERS
Join us for the opening on Friday, 13 March from 5pm, meet the artist, and enjoy a drink and nibbles while immersing yourself in these extraordinary gardens.
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Anna Evans deep affinity for Greek mythology has resulted in a suite of nine works that take for their titles the names of the nine muses, the daughters of Zeus by Mnemosyne, the Titan goddess of memory. “To muse is to remember, to think deeply from the cosmic pool… A muse is the door to a new-born perception” Anna says, “I make new worlds from my favourite parts of this one.”
Anna Evans came to New Zealand from England when she was a child and still thinks of herself as something of an introduced species. The worlds she creates in her meticulously detailed paintings are lush and exotic orchestrations of the flora that surrounds her Northland home. “Nature curated, alongside nature untouched” is how she puts it.
Her work has been described as ‘magical realism’, and Anna finds the term fitting and poetic. “When I paint, I feel like I am bringing forth something that has already existed… even though the painting is brand new to this world. My paintings are not of real existing gardens, but function more like remembered environments, dreamscapes filtered through memory.”