Curatorial+Co. presents Darlings 2021, a group small works show consisting of over forty artists from across the world.

Ann Gordon is a Sydney based landscape artist. Says Ann of her life and work: “… to be painting while travelling is my idea of heaven. It can be a Kombi adventure into regional Australia or a spectacular trip to New Zealand. I take my painting journal where ever I go. I sit with my case of graphite, charcoal and a small palette of paints and start making marks, letting the landscape tell me what to use and how. Without overthinking what I’m seeing I record the colours and the energy of the landscape.

I am very fortunate to have a studio at home where I can take these smaller journal paintings and start to work them into larger paintings. I layer with paint and colour, working with flux, alternating layers of mark making and veiling until I sense I have reached the balance between the mood and the energy of what it felt like to be in that place… ”