Anna Wise, Liminal 2 - Original Painting

Anna Wise Liminal 2 20 x 16 inches  Ink, watercolor, and pastel on 140 lb 100 % cotton paper 2025 Anna Wise’s practice explores the boundary between internal and external landscapes, opening a portal between nostalgia and possibility. She combines portraits with landscapes based on places she’s both visited and imagined, exploring how the environments we move through shape who we are—and how we, in turn, shape them. Using a mix of watercolor, spray paint, pastels, acrylics, and oil, she builds each painting through many glazes and layers of mark-making, where structure and spontaneity meet to tell a story. As a child, Anna often sought refuge in the woods where she would spend hours listening to music, praying, and dreaming about the future. Nature became her sanctuary, a place where she could let go of others' expectations and instead begin to rediscover a sense of adventure, hope, and purpose. That early connection to nature continues to shape her work - not just as inspiration, but as metaphor. Her paintings suggest that the "soulscapes" we carry inside us are just as real, wild, and worth exploring as the ones we stand in. Her ongoing series Wild Cartography is for anyone who’s ever felt lost in the chaos during changing seasons of life. View more original paintings by Anna Wise in Faces & Figures III