paintings by anna l conti

i like these paintings by anna conti- i don't LOVE them, but i think they're nice. i don't know what's wrong. she's a good painter, and i like her subject matter. ok. wait. i know what it is. there's something FLUFFY about the paintings that are supposed to be dark. i don't like saying this, as someone said the same thing about my drawings way back before i even went to art college and i was majorly frustrated by it. i tried to draw really nasty horrible bleak things, but i just haven't got it in me. this is sort of the feeling i get from anna's paintings.





ah, classic bath tub painting:


i think her best paintings are the ones where she isn't trying too hard to be dark. it's not because i don't like dark stuff, but because it's not what anna does best. this one is one of my favourites:


ok, ok, so there's an empty chair - turned away from us. i guess that's not entirely positive - empty chairs/rooms are always a reminder of something or someone who isn't there. in this painting though, i get a feeling that whoever it is that isn't there is ME and that i can just walk in there, sit in her plastic chair and enjoy the view and a glass of white wine. i think it's a white wine scenery, and a very pretty one too- in pretty colours. it would soothe my mind to stay there for a while. it's possibly not what she intended, but hey, that's the way of art; it's completed in the minds of it's audience.