Anne Tanner

ANNE TANNER

Anne Tanner trained at the Manchester Royal College of Music as a singer, but ended up finding fame in the late seventies for her innovative kinetic sculptures. Partially inspired by one of her daughter’s school projects, she painted complex geometric designs on electrophoretically prepared aluminium constructions. Each remarkable piece had three possible patterns that only revealed themselves as the viewpoint changed.

Although these mathematical structures proved incredibly popular, Tanner felt gradually drawn back to freer ways of expression. Art, music and mathematics were always closely linked for the artist, and her latest works push this idea even further. Her recent abstracts for Hay Hill Gallery follow in the footsteps of synaesthetes such as Klee, Kandinsky and Baranov-Rossine: Just as these artists sought to provoke a ‘vibration in the soul’ by linking art and music, so Tanner’s compositions create a plethora of sensations in her viewers.

These sculptural-paintings hang freely from poles; offered as bright sheets of music to be unravelled or decoded with the eye. The colours float over land like cumulus or cirrus clouds; warm and cool fronts collide, eddies, water spouts and dust devils move through space.

Like satellite images of distant galaxies, the canvases are made up of swirling atmospheres and fantastic colours.

Blue In Blue Acrylic on canvas 70 x 50.5 cm

Jigsaw Of Colour Acrylic on canvas 163 x 91.5 cm

By translating her sonic experiences into visually open rhythms, Tanner creates a sense of resonant tranquillity.

Using symmetry, colour theory, pattern and a special technique, Tanner allows the edges of the canvas to follow their own painted shape- not the traditionally rigid frame. Inevitably, this literal reworking of boundaries places full emphasis on colour psychology: Brilliant- in every sense of the word.

Beyond Our Wildest Dreams Acrylic on canvas 167.5 x 148 cm

Ethereal Visions Acrylic on canvas 170 x 121.5 cm

Dreams In Blue Acrylic on canvas 170 x 121 cm

Impending Storm Acrylic on canvas 199 x 152 cm

Search For Tranquility Acrylic on canvas 169 x 150 cm

Tropical Storm Acrylic on canvas 207 x 126.5 cm

Fantasy Of Colour Acrylic on canvas 172 x 130 cm

The Lightness Of Colour Acrylic on canvas 167 x 89 cm

Surreal Imagery Acrylic on canvas 131 x 79 cm

Blue In Blue Acrylic on canvas 70 x 50.5 cm

Colours In Space Acrylic on wood 85 x 29.5 cm

Emotions Acrylic on canvas 92 x 61 cm

Falling Jigsaw Acrylic on canvas 70.5 x 50 cm

Imagination Acrylic on canvas 91 x 60.5 cm

Jigsaw Of Colour Acrylic on canvas 163 x 91.5 cm

Transformation In Colour Acrylic on canvas 155 x 190 cm

What Is The Colour Of Blue Acrylic on wood 122 x 61.5 cm

Multicolours Acrylic on wood 91 x 91 cm

Stalagmites Of Epsilon Acrylic on wood 92 x 92 cm

The Shrine Aluminium, unique 58.5 x 60 x 25 cm

Broken Circles Aluminium, unique 33 x 28 x 12 cm

Canopus Aluminium, unique 41 x 46 x 16 cm

Reflections On A Square Aluminium, unique 33 x 36.5 x 22.5 cm

Odyssey Aluminium, unique 69 x 68 x 15.5 cm

Motionless Movement Aluminium, unique 33 x 29.5 x 14 cm

Selected Exhibitions

2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2000 1998 1997 1996 1993 1990 1988 1987

Art House London Art House London Wallpower Art, Toronto Finelot Gallery, London Finelot Gallery, Miami Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami Wallpower Art Toronto Contemporary Art Society, London.

Contemporary Society at the Tate, (Selection of paintings for De Beers) Riverside Gallery, London Royal Society of Painters and Sculptors Riverside Gallery, London Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami Art for Offices, London Mall Gallery, Contemporary Art Society Madden Gallery, Nottingham Madden Gallery, Johannesburg Mall Gallery: National Society of Painters and Sculptors (awarded associate membership)

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