ANNA WINSTANLEY

www.annawinstanley.art 
https://www.instagram.com/morninghorn/

“Usually my art-making starts with a word, a pun, or concept overheard, that sparks an image in my mind. 

I’m a Meta-phory-story-drawer. I sketch punny ideas in notebooks and develop some into prints, or paintings, or digital drawings and other mixed media projects. 

The way I interpret our lovely universe creatively is ridiculously serious; beautiful Nature with sad cynicism. 

I want to explore the lovely but can’t help tainting it. 

My theme is often Desire and Discomfort as narrative; somewhat damaged meets hope for pleasure; shiny, everyday, problematic moments, often related to sensuality. 

My art is angry ecology, kitch, cute or colourful, therapeutic-art, play on words, pretty suffering, comic or disturbing and sometimes political. 

I am an artist creator who has worked and lived in the UK, mostly London & Hastings, Australia, New Zealand and France, with a BA hons in Textile Design from Central-St Martins School of Art, (1985) and qualifications & experience in Teaching Art, Design and Health, Psycho-sexual health & Counselling, Environmental & Community Arts, Children & Family Theatre programming, Jungian & Tarot archetypes, and as a scribe / amanuensis for disabled people working with sex & disability and Graphic Medicine since 2019.

 I am writing a very graphic novel about the use of animal parts as aphrodisiacs and the impact of the penis, another one about hedgehogs in UK & NZ, and illustrating Graphic Medicine about NTM lung disease.

I have a scribbly unfinished style influenced by adhd, experimentation and our chaotic world, so rich in stimulation.

I tend to start off loose and gestural with line or colour, then overwork, go illustrative or decorative, then get disheartened or amused and stop. Then I go to work as a carer or tarot-card reader to earn money to pay my rent in St Leonards.”