Medium · 22 works in the catalogue

Acrylic on canvas

Canvases in acrylic: the medium Anahita reaches for when she wants speed with the light or a broader range of tone in a single sitting. It carries her murals of shed cockerels and lavender rows, the fireworks of an abstract kitchen, the impasto red of Sky on Fire, several cool-water seascapes and a run of romantic portraits. Acrylic dries quickly, so a whole sky can be laid down while it is still moving in her head. The palette is often warmer than the oil work: hot vermilion clouds, warm amber grounds, and cobalt only where it is earned by the water.