Anja is a printmaker, and the majority of her work combines collagraph and etching techniques to build up multi-layered imagery with rich, textural surfaces. Her prints utilise both representational and abstract elements, to produce images that portray her experience of the landscape.
Anja is fascinated by the different atmospheres that light creates in both our rural and urban environments. Some of her work reflects the different moods and sensations of contrasting exterior landscapes, while other compositions focus on interior spaces. She uses variations in light, colour, space and surface to magnify the impressions of places she has experienced.
‘My work is a personal portrait of our landscape; it is influenced by how I see the world around me, drawing upon my favourite elements from our rich visual existence”