Anne Terry is a mixed-media abstract artist based in Washington, DC and Luray, VA. Her paintings emerge through layers of acrylic, collage, and drawing, where structured elements such as stripes, blocks, and fragments of text sit alongside looser marks, drips, and erasures. Her work explores the tension between control and intuition, and the point where composition gives way to discovery.
Anne studied painting at Parsons and Brown before stepping away from art for 20 years. Perfection derailed her repeated attempts to return to the studio—specifically, her difficulty answering the question of what to paint when faced with a blank page.
She returned to painting in 2022 through classes at the Torpedo Factory, where she began experimenting with expressive mark-making and layering techniques. She quickly fell in love with abstraction, which gave her space to focus on play and experimentation and discovering what each piece wanted to be rather than forcing it towards a pre-determined outcome.
Each of Anne’s pieces is a reminder that we don’t have to have all the answers when we start out: we just have to keep showing up, staying curious, and opening ourselves up to whatever happens next.