Paintings | Anna Winstanley Artist

Paintings on this page are a mixture of my self expression and commissioned art, in acrylic, oils, as murals, mixed media, inks and in watercolour, on paper, canvas and wood.

Painting of a sparrow with flowers on oil and canvas

Poppy & Ghost Sparrow

Acrylic, gold leaf, pencil, collaged paper on canvas. 16" x 12"

Painting of male sparrow in oil paint on canvas with white daisies

Ghost Sparrow

Oil & silver leaf on canvas

Australian Reef Fish Medley

Pencil & coloured inks on paper 16" x 23"

The Bright Side

Small acrylic on canvas psycho hamster and happy rat painting I made in response to a mother-in-law clash.

Painting of a cow with the text "Moo Too"

Moo Too 1

The original Moo Too. first of a series of Animal respect protest paintings I made. Acrylic on canvas 2023

Moo Too 2

A beautiful young cow with horn de-budding wounds facing you, it's power hoof raised in challenge, the grass as hash-tags, the earring of milk drops.
Acrylic on canvas 2023

Cock-a-doodle-doo-too

Ambiguous regarding gender message about the exploitation by humans of chickens and eggs.
Acrylic on canvas. 2023

Mackerel - Blood On My Hands

Freshly caught, iridescent fish that I had to de-gut stared dead-eyed up from the fresh tap water only hours after swimming wild in East Sussex sea.
Acrylic & fake silver leaf on board. 8" x 10"

Beetling

Acrylic & glitter paint on canvas. A beautiful beetle nipping a heart shaped bud at the top of a soft opening.

Can't Complain

Takahe; an endangered and threatened, flightless, swamp-hen indigenous to New Zealand. They were considered extinct and are now in the recovery care of DOC. There are 440 of them known (2021) with labels on their legs. Their habitat of grass tussocks was farmed and destroyed.
In my painting it walks through plastic grass.
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas. 2023

Beetle to Earth

Where did you get that rash? Who's asking?
A beetle's functional wings, which allow flying, are the hind wings, hidden in my painting, as it can't fly in space. And why is it in space human? The elytra, (outer-wing casing) have an ingenious and often beautiful structure with superhydrophobic (water repellent) characteristics. The iridescent shine of many beetles is produced structurally. The physical features trap and redirect some wavelengths of light and thus colour. Their inner structure helps to provide light mass and high strength.
This art is a metaphor.
Acrylic & copper leaf on canvas. 2023

We Evils Mating Secretly

I painted some beautiful weevils mating (the male is smaller). Some Weevils are called Pantry-Pests. This lead me to paint a woman remembering an illicit affair and not wanting to; thus the can.
Acrylic & silver leaf on canvas. 2023