Annie Hawkins is a self-taught oil painter with over 40 years of practice and an enduring fascination with vast open spaces, solitary landscapes, and coastal waterscapes. Her works are characterised by muted colour palettes and simplified compositions, inviting the viewer to imagine themselves within the scene.
Through a careful balance of light, texture, and atmosphere, Annie’s paintings come alive with a quiet sense of drama, allowing the eye to move gently across the surface and return again. Her subject matter often centres on isolated and abandoned cottages set within expansive landscapes, forms she approaches with sensitivity and restraint.
Annie is particularly drawn to windows, which she sees as eyes—vessels of emotion that create an immediate connection and sense of presence. These subtle human traces encourage a deeper engagement with the landscape and the stories it holds.
Her work is deeply informed by Australia’s remote environments, shaped by childhood bushwalks with her grandparents. This early connection continues to guide her practice, as she steps away from daily noise to observe the tones, shapes, and rhythms of the natural world.
In the studio, painting is both grounding and energising. Annie works across landscapes and seascapes, favouring aerial perspectives that verge on abstraction and natural, subdued palettes that reflect the quiet majesty of place.
Her work has been featured in multiple Bluethumb Online Gallery curations. In 2023, Annie was named one of Bluethumb’s Top 10 Landscape Artists and was featured in Home Beautiful as part of Australian Artists: Local Talent — Artists to Buy From Now. She has also been a finalist in the Bluethumb Art Prize on two occasions (2020 and 2023).