Predominantly working in 2D, the artist is interested in the natural world; encompassing the ecological environment - botanical, geographical, climatic and cosmological concerns, inform her creativity, and she seeks to explore these within her work. Using inks, oils and acrylics, she embraces the fluidity of these materials, allowing them to guide the processes of making, in response to her interests.

Anstee takes her inspiration from the outdoors, either locally, or further afield when opportunity arises; the influence of time immersed in the ecologically unique and sensitive Galapagos islands, a few years ago, continues to permeate today.

Incorporating biomorphism - abstract forms reminiscent of biological and botanical structures - such forms can be found both in her uninhibited works, as well as in more clearly defined images. Illusions of translucence permeate, reminiscent of the fleeting delicacy of ecological balance. More linear and illustrative impressions, consider complexity of these relationships.

Although she works intuitively and freely, the artist often begins her research with photography, as a starting point, painting in response to, and in dialogue with, her photographs, as well as drawing on the immersive experience itself. Her works are an interplay, and interconnectedness, most often between photography, illustration, painting, and digital images. Photographing paintings, or sections thereof, she digitally plays with them, manipulating both the original photographs, and also the photographs of the paintings, transforming them into something new, which feeds back into her artmaking; each influencing one another.

Through their abstract indeterminateness, whether large scale or small scale, Anstee invites the audience to slow down, take time, and to contemplate upon our precious natural phenomenon, hoping to imbue a sense of wonder for our world.

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