Annie Palmer-Bunbury
Annie is fascinated with the many languages of artistic expression, and over the years has incorporated writing, music, fibre arts, life studies and portraiture, painting, and clay sculpture into her search for personal statement.
Initially studying architecture, her post-graduate interest was in the fostering of creativity. It took years of self searching, and then finally a meeting with master potter Ross Palmer to help her find voice.
“We shall not cease from exploration.
And the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.”
Ross has drawn her into the wonderful world of molten glazes. Fast forward six short years and their collaborative gallery, just out of Taupo, is well established.
Artist Statement
Colour is very healing. And like a path through dense forest, I’m certain these colours lead us to the next healing colour. It’s always changing, and very personal.
I’ve heard it said that
‘if you want to write well, write the book you’d like the read’.
The same goes for my work. I follow the trail that draws me on to produce something I’d love to live with.
What really speaks to me is the personal, the exception, the imperfect, the unique, that broad impressionistic stroke or smudge rather than the engraved exactitude of technical precision.
I like to champion the overlooked. No two sparrows are quite the same, no flower. I seek to reframe what I see or feel, to invite the viewer to maybe look again, to see it with new eyes or associate it with a new meaning.
Annie Palmer-Bunbury
