artist
Anna Törnquist
- Sweden, 1957
Anna Törnquist is an architect and artist. A course in watercolour painting with Hasse Karlsson in 1999 turned what used to be a hobby for Törnquist into a full-time career as an artist and course leader. She mostly works with a restrained palette of just three pigments. The triad should be able to blend into a dramatic blackness and is carefully selected based on the different properties of the pigments. The blends are applied quickly onto the paper with a gradient from dark to light, where paint is applied and the wash manipulated. Once the paint is dry, the artist uses line drawing, pulling out dark pools of paint using the back of the brush handle. Sometimes she rinses parts of the drawing with the garden hose when the lines are almost dry. The colour areas can also be given a pattern using tissue paper or salt. The picture is completed with thin, patterned collage pieces glued together with gum arabic. Anna Törnquist was educated as an architect at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and as an artist through courses in watercolour, tempera, oil and acrylic. She is a board member of the Nordic Watercolour Society.
