2022
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
The darks in this piece are captivating. I love how much hope this work has despite the dramatic contrast in values and hues of color. The LUSH collection celebrates growth luxuriantly. Finding rest in order to grow when nourished.
All work is so lively and vivacious Lush Release no.15 is no different.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
Slowly release the air from your lungs swimming to the surface. Bubbles all around me. Trusting that deep inhale will come upon reaching the surface. A slow trusting exhale. Releasing that next bit of control. Trusting.
I love how much movement is in this work. It is so fluid and non-permanent. When painting this work, actually the act of painting itself is an act of trust. Making one mark and the next, hoping for the best. Showing up to the artwork time and time again, with hope that things will work out that that composition will work out.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
Lush Release no.20 has my heart.
Though she is not part of the SOFT AF collection. She screams of softness and strength. She has ugly bits and such beautiful blends and washes of colors complimenting and tones contrasting.
Her energy is strong and bold unashamed.
She is organic. Unapologeticlly watered and nurtured to grow luxuriantly. She gives me bravery just to look at her.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
My previous series Lush Restraint explored the idea of control and letting go.
Lush Release is play. Sweet release. Moving the paint and adding the layers quickly moving faster than my brain can think. This season I escaped through my work. I painted through my blurry and dark days. Finding freedom in my pigments and paints.
Lush Release no.5 is so etherial and dreamy. With washy fluid paints and splatters.
It leads the viewers eye from the bottom left past turbulent dark patches to light brights up and around the top of the canvas.
It speaks of other worlds and free flowing nature.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
When I look at Lush Release no.14 I think of ease. I feel calm and trust even with the unknown. The possibility the space.
Space to breath.
Space to pulse.
Space to be.
Natural shapes, organic forms, delicate gradients. It’s a refreshing bath of blues and greens with hints of lilac. Lush Release no.14 flows like water, it came easily.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
Lush Release no.11 spoke ease to me. They showed themselves easy in the studio. Flourish space-scape. The energy was there right away.
I knew they were a winner from the start. The first two hour session flew by in an instant and the sessions to follow time warp. Flow.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
Lush Release no.9 is so vibrant and bold. Soft at the same time. Saturated and jewely colors. This is one of the first works close to finish in the collection. It led the rest of the work.
Lush. Growth luxuriantly.
Lush is freedom. This work has me feeling free. It has me feeling like there’s a possibility. It’s all has an upward motion. It feels like swimming to the surface releasing the air slowly knowing a deep inhale is coming. Trusting. Bubbles around you.
Thank you for considering my art for your collection.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
Lush Release no.7 is letting the color guide me. Play. Fresh play.
This one feels life electric.
Seriously dreamy.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
This Lush Release no.6 hung on the wall of my studio for weeks at the mid stage almost done. Having flowed out of me. 3 or 4 visits.
Smooth no struggle. Sometimes when things are so beautiful I delay their progress because it means I have to call them finished sooner. It shows clear attachment. Too much maybe. Considering my work to be sold makes me want to keep artwork after artwork in this collection. Lush Release no.6 is no different.
It has a hopeful feeling about it. A sense of roundedness but also possibility, established elevation. Play. I love its confidence. Lush Release no.6 has my heart. She is the second of this Lush Collection of artworks being released weekly to the Studio Club.
100x100cm /// 3.2x3.2 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
Lush Release no.16 had me from the start I began this work towards the beginning of the collection and its boldness became a muse for the rest of the work in the collection to follow.
Though it was uncertain Lush Release no.16 would ever be completed and included in the collection. It served as a strong and open work accompanying other pieces over the 4 months of creation. Lush Release no.16, being one of the last works but one of the most beautiful and striking in the whole Lush collection.
Thank you for considering Anna Baer work for your collection.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
Lush Release no.10 is a smooth work so coloroful and balanced. The space and the textural interest make the work effortlessly divine.
I had some new friends over last night and when standing infant of this painting one of them said they appreciate how colorful my work is but it is not too much color and it always has a sense of balance. He also always sees and loves a pop and surprise, perfect amount of interest and space in the work. He said usually he doesn't like things that are so colourful but my work has a fine touch and sensibility to color that he admires and appreciates. Music to my ears. Seriously.
I feel the same. To be honest I keep thinking damn this work is bright but it works. It works beautifully!
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
Lush Release no.12 is honestly one of the most beautiful things I have created to date.
The details and etherial nature of the work leave room for so much imagination and wonder. It will be a piece to get lost in for years by the collector and their family and guests.
Lush Release no.12 was not an easy work to make. Well on the one and it was in that when it was done it surprised me. It began as a Soft AF work from my previous collection but didn’t make it and then when beginning LUSH I added some dark dark blues and ugly yellows. Then added even more etherial layers to complete the work. When, it was suddenly, done a whole 12 months later.
Thank you for considering Anna Baer work for your collection.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022
Lush is freedom. Growth luxuriantly.
This work has me feeling free. It has me feeling like there’s possibility, hope. It all has an upward motion. It feels like swimming to the surface releasing the air slowly knowing a deep inhale is coming. Trusting. Bubbles around you.
Lush is full of bright saturated rich colors and it’s spacescapes, and maps of energy.
Lush is choosing happiness. Choosing light even though the dark feels so comfortable.
Here's to growth luxuriantly.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
wood frame included
2022
Lush Release no.2 was created with ease. Every mark and spill came clear and fluidly passed into the next hue. I begin painting with water the initial shape took form. Then I add color. Dark blues blend into pale greens. Filling splatters with pigment. Pulling color away from other spots. Letting the work dry and rest until I visit it again. Adding depth and value to the work, rough and smooth texture
This painting depicts my play with control and letting go in the painting process. Letting materials flow and speak while controlling them and making intentional marks.
80x170cm /// 2.6x5.6 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
Natural wood frame included
2022
Lush Release no.1 is the first of this title and one of the last of my Soft AF works.
Mother nature within and around me is fluid, rough, and delicate. This work also.
The movement and space in this work is fluid and calm. Energetic but not overpowering. The size is also great for most living spaces. It can make a beautiful statement artwork in any space.
When I see Lush Release, I think of wild nature. A progression and changing, growth and death, beyond our control. Hush Wild works speak of embracing the wild, finding beauty in the things we cannot control. Comfort in the act of letting go.
60x60cm /// 23.6x23.6 inches
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
Frame included.
2022
Lush Release no.3 was created with ease. Every mark and spill come clear and fluidly passed into the next hue. I began painting with water the initial shape took form. Then I added color. Dark blues and yellows blend into greens. Filling splatters with pigment. Pulling color away from other spots. Letting the work dry and rest until I visit it again. Adding depth and value to the work, rough and smooth texture.
This painting depicts my play with control and letting go in the painting process. Letting materials flow and speak while controlling them and making intentional marks.
60x60cm /// 23.6x23.6 inches
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
Frame included
2022
Lush Release no.4 was created with ease. Every mark and spill came clear and fluidly passed into the next hue. I begin painting with water the initial shape took form. Then I add color. Dark blues blend into pale greens. Filling splatters with pigment. Pulling color away from other spots. Letting the work dry and rest until I visit it again. Adding depth and value to the work, rough and smooth texture
This painting depicts my play with control and letting go in the painting process. Letting materials flow and speak while controlling them and making intentional marks.
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2601x130 cm total (130x130cm each) /// 4.3x4.3 feet each
White or wood frame included
2022
Until Then, I Awake is about being.
This wild one moment we have. Present. I find comfort in being in the studio. Connection and grounding with the pigments, paints, canvas, and water. Making is an act of communing with myself and nature. It is a state of being rather than doing.
Though my hand moves with the brush and pigment. I don’t know what is to come, I don’t judge what has passed, I am there paying attention. Being.
Mother nature within and around me is fluid, rough, and delicate. This work also.
This work is a diptych, it is made up of two canvases differing in sizes that work together to make a whole.
80x80cm /// 2.6 feet and 100x100cm: /// 3.2x3.2 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
White or wood frames included
2022
Hush Wild no. 19 began as two but then working side by side on them they became one. Growing together and complimenting each other in their journey.
It is an out breath of trust that a new deep, life-giving inhale is coming. Hush Wild works speak of embracing the wild, finding beauty in the things we cannot control. Comfort in the act of letting go.
Mother nature within and around me is fluid, rough, and delicate. Nothing is permanent.
150x150cm: /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
White or wood frame included
2022
Hush Wild no. 16 is so calm. It is cool. Light and full of possiblitly.
The movement and space in this work is fluid and calm. A calm energy in the work. Energetic but not overpowering. The size is also great, it can make a beautiful statement artwork in any space.
When I see Hush Wild no.16, I think of wild nature. A progression and changing, growth and death, beyond our control. Hush Wild works speak of embracing the wild, finding beauty in the things we cannot control. Comfort in the act of letting go.
100x100cm /// 3.2x3.2 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
White or wood frame included
2022
I begin with a circle of water. Then begin to add fluid and raw pigments to the water. The color stays in the limits of the shape. The circle shape was the first controlled container for my spills and stains of color. My attempt at accepting the wild in life. Working on raw cotton has allowed me to stain and drench the canvas and fibres in such beautiful unforgiving ways.
When I see Wombly Wild no.10, I see that play of holding tight and letting go. Colors collide in unexpected ways. Pigments break free in swirls and splashes. Subtle and energetic calm radiating out of the work.
Nature and its flow, in and around me are my muse.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
White or wood frame included
2022
Normally my color palette is somewhat limited. This work kept asking for more and wanted to be painted in rainbows.
The upward movement and space in this work is energetic but not overpowering. The size is also great for most living spaces. It can make a beautiful statement artwork in any space.
When I see Lush Restraint no.18, I think of wild nature. A progression and changing, growth and death, beyond our control. Hush Wild works speak of embracing the wild, finding beauty in the things we cannot control. Comfort in the act of letting go.
100x100cm /// 3.2x3.2 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
White or wood frame included
2022
The circle shape has always been a controlled container for my spills and stains of color. My attempt at accepting the wild in life. Working on raw cotton has allowed me to stain and drench the canvas and fibres in such beautiful unforgiving ways.
When I see Wombly Wild no.9, I see that play of holding tight and letting go. Colors collide in unexpected ways. Pigments break free in swirls and splashes. Subtle and energetic calm radiating out of the work.
Nature and its flow, in and around me are my muse.
100x100cm /// 3.2x3.2 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
White or wood frame included
2022
The work seems to want to get softer and softer. Whispering to me in the studio rather than speaking loudly. This work brings me to a calm. The subtle and intense detail in the left of the painting takes you to another world. The generous amount of space in the work allows the eye to rest and delight in the quiet subtleties.
60x120cm /// 1.9x3.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
White or wood frame included
2022
Hush Wild no. 18 is an exhale. It is an out-breath of trust that a new deep, life-giving inhale is coming. Hush Wild works speak of embracing the wild, finding beauty in the things we cannot control. Comfort in the act of letting go.
Mother nature within and around me is fluid, rough, and delicate. Nothing is permanent. The next inhale is just after the pause between breath. It’s safe to let go.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
White or wood frame included
2022
When I see Hush Wild no.20, I think Hokusai’s Great Wave. I think nature within and around me both inspiring and frustrating. Wild nature. Beyond our control. Hush Wild no.20 speaks of embracing the wild, finding beauty in the things we cannot control. Comfort in the act of letting go.
150x150cm /// 4.9x4.9 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
White or wood frame included
2022
The movement and space in this work is fluid and calm. Energetic but not overpowering. The size is also great for most living spaces. It can make a beautiful statement artwork in any space.
100x100cm /// 3.2x3.2 feet
acrylic, ink, oil, and spray on raw cotton
2022