Annika Romeyn’s work is inspired by being in the landscape and the experience of wonder and mutability that comes with a close and patient observation of nature. By engaging with sites of erosion and flux through a combination of drawing, watercolour and printmaking processes, Romeyn aims to convey a sense of humility and concern for both the power and fragility of our natural environment.

Through lived experience, landscapes and places gain significance as they become intertwined with memories and emotions. Revisiting these places allows us to mark time and reflect on continuity and change. Guerilla Bay, NSW has become one such touchstone for Romeyn - a place linked to experiences spanning joy and loss, calm and upheaval.

Revisited and reanimated from the artist's Canberra studio, Romeyn has tended to the dynamic geological features of Guerilla Bay in fine detail on a large scale. Tones of blue are employed to suggest a place somewhere in-between the landscape experienced and the landscape rendered, influenced by the psychological distance of memory:

 ‘I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen... the colour of there seen from here, the colour of where you are not. And the colour of where you can never go.’ Rebecca Solint, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Viking Penguin, 2005, p.25.

This project has been supported by the ACT Government. Annika is represented by Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne