#24 Annie Phillips

This work is a batik and it is from her series entitled "funky flowers". I really like this work because it is so simple but so pretty. I like that she painted the same leaves in all three batiks but she used different colors for each. I like this because I am most attracted to work that is playful and fun because I like to do work with the same style and feel to it.

Annie has been a batik artist for 25 years. She says that batik is her passion, vacation and also her work. She is continuously enthused by the process and finds it relaxing and freeing. Annie likes the medium because she is able to constantly stretch the medium. She likes that she can try to break down the boundaries of traditional batik and discover new areas and techniques. Unlike most artists Annie doesn't have any pre conceived notion on what her works will look like in the end when they are done. She likes to describe it as a magical mystery tour. She describes her creative process like a game of chess, one line leads to the next which then dictates what color should be used in the next part of her journey. Annie likes to create with organic lines.

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