![Anne Neely - Beneath [2014]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/701/23177352776_544f6122f8_o.png)
“I found painting to be the most compelling way to continue my connection to nature and delve more deeply into the unseen. It has been through the practice and process of painting that I reference those early childhood memories viscerally, triggering them with what I observe, read, and know in my contemporary world. Because it is very important for me to wonder; as I paint, I approach painting by asking questions, just as a scientist does, and it is through my investigation of these questions that a painting is built. With one curiosity layered on top of another, my paintings begin to come to life. I start by pouring paint on a canvas to make a base and further define a structure. As I paint I find that each piece gives me a thread to follow for the next painting, and gradually a body of work emerges.”
See: www.anneneely.com/
[Kathryn Markel Fine Arts , New York & Bridgehampton - Oil on linen, 152.4 × 203.2 cm]