An Introduction
Anette S. Purim
Anette Purim was born in Denmark, and grew up in a family where music was a big part of life. At an early stage she started working with ink and oil painting. She has always juggled her interests between visual arts and music, and after studying music for a couple of years, she went into television production and graduated from Copenhagen University 1998 with a BA in Film and Music. During her 3 years in Vienna, where she gave birth to a daughter, she decided that it was art that attracted her the most, and she spent much of her time painting and studying.
She came to London in 2000, and has since then dedicated herself fulltime to her painting.
Being largely self-taught she has developed her own method by which she works. Every painting is an experiment. A large painting can happen in a few days, and on other occasions it can take weeks. She works freely and expressively within a structure. Her work is emotional. Projects come out of her inner self often inspired by texture on an old wall, a piece of fabric, old wood or scenery. All the different impressions come together in her mind and create a new picture. Her paintings are therefore mostly non specific places created in her mind. By mixing colours and texture the paintings are as much a reflection of feelings and memories as they are landscapes.
She works in oils and acrylic, but with added media, charcoal, sand, plaster and collaged items. Figures rarely appear in her paintings although occasionally may shape within the landscape.