Anna Nightingale’s latest exhibition, Breathe, straddles the abstract and representational. Joseph Agius discussed it with her.  JA: Abstract American artist Helen Frankenthaler once said: “You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.” Does accident figure a lot in your work? AN: Yes, I agree and believe this to be true. I never plan or make studies for my paintings; they don’t work as well when I do. I dislike rigidity and prefer the fluidity of thought

Sometimes you have to die inside in order to rise from your own ashes, believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person. Nothing remains as it was. I engage in painting based on what I know and I am interested in… some of the healthiest areas to realise are from your own experience. As time goes by you start to relate to things you did in the past and you have more ease, more distance from them so you can work with renewed energy emotion and movement. Sometimes a sketch you have done before can become, with

This new collection is my story of rebirth after a series of traumatic and life- threatening events.  It is a story of hitting rock bottom and rising . . . of second chances and starting over. Coming to understand life’s lessons, through a journey of self-discovery, I learnt that to feel fear is part of life.  Being courageous comes from within.  It is what you do with that unease, when you need to be brave, that makes you stand up and be counted. I am interested in healing from within, in acceptance, understanding and forgiveness and have journeyed to find

Please join me at the Malta Postal Museum on the 29th of December, where I will have my latest collection from BREATHE on display. Event is between 12.00 and 14.00.

What does the Artist want to tell us? The challenge for any artist in world of multi media is to strive to tell us a story on canvas , retaining the goals of uniqueness. The artists intentions are to strive to provoke thoughts, emotions and individual reference.  Here the artist tells a story of rebirth, empowerment and starting over. Its about second chances after series of life threatening events.  She is interested in the other side of fear, facing death and rising. She raises the level of the work through lightness, elegance and originality. These works of art are images in the mind. Capturing a moment in time. Images that can be