About this episode

Anita Phillips discusses her transition from teaching to full-time painting and the changes she anticipates in her work and life.

Anita Phillips is a West Australian landscape painter raised on a Wheatbelt farm, who spent close to four decades as a home economics teacher before painting became her full-time focus. In this conversation she talks about selling her Perth home, resigning from teaching, and moving to the Bellarine Peninsula near Geelong and what she expects to change, and not change, in her and her work once she's away from the landscape she's painted for most of her career. Anita talks through how her practice has developed and shifted over time, the role travel has played, the residencies that sparked real change in her, and how drawing and journalling became central to her process alongside painting. She also discusses the role of her circle of artist friends have played throughout her career and how those friends have supported her, mentored her early on, and given her the confidence to make this move. She also talks about the mentoring she sought out earlier in her career, and about the wider artist community she's built through Instagram and residencies. Find Anita Phillips here on instagram and here : anitaphillips.com.au Anita has an upcoming exhibition titled 'Shaped By Weather' with…

People in this episode

Host: Julie Battisti

Guest: Anita Phillips

Topics covered

• art
• landscape painting
• career change
• mentorship
• creative process

Mentioned in this episode

Places: West Australia, Bellarine Peninsula, Geelong, Perth

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