Anne Siems was born in Berlin, Germany. As a child, she lived for three years near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her first extended stay in the US was as an exchange student. After finishing her MFA in Berlin, she moved to Seattle, WA.
Her work has moved from semi-abstract, room-filling plant and insect drawings, to paintings of detailed botanical and anatomical imagery on waxed paper bags, to her current work of young women and children on wood panel. The thread here being her fascination and awe of life on this planet and the connectedness she feels to all, but finds hard to describe in words.
In the process of finding healing for chronic pain and fatigue, she has deepened her interest in shamanism, ceremony and the deep nurturing that nature provides.
In her work she tries to be as honest and true to herself as she can without losing discernment. She aims for sincerity, intimacy and openness in her paintings. In them she finds the beginning of something that touches the universal. It is a place where others can touch the magic and sensuality that gets exposed in the process. Siems is looking to find the point in which we feel a certain ache – the ache caused by the knowledge that life is full of light and dark, sacred and profane, beauty and ugliness, life and death.
Dimensions
Height: 14 in. (35.56 cm)
Width: 14 in. (35.56 cm)
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