Anna Franke challenges the boundaries of painting and expands them. Her approach to landscapes defies conventional formats, taking a physical and experimental stance. Organic forms, primal elements, colour, light, matter, and the body take centre stage in her art. Working with the transitions between wet and dry states, she creates wave forms, furrows, and paths that traverse the material. Engaging in a ritualistic process involving liquid and solid states of matter, Anna layers natural pigments, dust, and water to seamlessly integrate the fabric’s forms into the surroundings, forging a harmonious connection with the land. Her penchant for experimenting extends to unconventional materials such as earth, mud, collected natural objects, beach debris, and text fragments. Painting serves as a research field for the artist, where she explores experimental techniques, natural materials, and the interplay between outdoor work and studio refinement. This cyclic process of creating seeks equilibrium between the internal and external, nature and humanity, body and mind, and idea and material.