Nature is my sanctuary, made not of solitude, but of attention to what is still growing, still whispering, still alive under the distractions. Anne Stevenson once wrote of lying down in the grass until my bones became stems, my veins became sap.That sense of dissolving into the landscape, not lost but returned, is what I felt in this painting.
Anna-Carien Goosen is a Sydney-based artist. She developed her addiction to secretly sketching strangers while studying art in Pretoria, where she bagged a handsome ginger giant who doubles as her Art Fair pack mule. Together they live on the edge of bushland with three boisterous boys and a menagerie of wildlife scratching their noses through her garden before creeping into her paintings.
Anna-Carien has honed the skill of hanging art straight through numerous solo and group exhibitions. She's won the Naracoorte National Art Prize, South Africa's Living Portrait Master Competition, and appears on ABC's Australian Portrait Artist of the Year.
About the Gallery: Folly and Muse was established in 2015 in London to find and collaborate with the most creative, talented, emerging and mid-career artists from all around the world. Folly & Muse (since 2019 in Munich) has made it their mission to curate unique works of an exceptional quality and bring them to savvy contemporary art collectors with an eye out for abstract and figurative paintings, photography and sculptural works of art.
