While Postmodernists Embrace Fervour, This Artist Finds Joy in Precision and Accuracy

‘For two hours, everything else goes away, you just are so focused ... It is so good it’s almost a meditation,’ says watercolourist Anne Maree O'Brien.

Watercolour painter Anne Maree O'Brien with example of her painting of New Farm Park in Brisbane. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Courtesy of Anne Maree O'Brien

Anne Maree O’Brien has tried to loosen her brush and let emotion and chance take over.

But the watercolourist says classical, realist painting is “in her blood,” and that she prefers to capture her city’s landmarks—particularly Queenslander homes—one precise stroke at a time.