Essays

New Points of Departure

Dr Camilla Cassidy, March 2021

To consistently create good painting, to arrive at new points of departure, a painter must keep re-writing the formal constraints they prescribe themselves. In her most recent exhibition at The Richard Randall Art Studio, Anita Hochman has achieved this. Through using a language of reduction (not formerly evident, or at least of a different nature […]

Flora

Beth Jackson, March 2021

Covid has prompted many of us, including artists, to focus attentions close to home – to the places we inhabit. Our urban environments are so heavily modified and designed for human use, we can become blind to the natural world living right alongside us – and on which we are dependent. In these paintings, the […]

Enveloped by the Sky

Sigrid Langker, July 2015

I remember seeing your beautiful work in Danks Street Sydney and would love to see your next inspiration. I love your work, it makes me feel so calm and serene, you capture the energy in the sky with such softness and fluidity. It resonates with my great experiences traveling the country and being enveloped by […]

Anita Hochman New Paintings

George Alexander, June 2012

When artists bring their attention to nature, they try and capture those moods that a landscape, seascape or skyscape excites in us. Sometimes they are semiconscious or half-formed feelings. Moonlight reflected in mid-ocean, a sea crashing on a deserted beach, an isolated forest: these can be lonely and spiritual, or thrilling, even heartbreaking, things. Looking […]

Thoughts On My Painting

Anita Hochman, 2012

A note to my brother Mike Hurst every body of work is really a journey. often for me it’s a journey without a clear destination. that makes it a difficult road. but i’ve learnt that my best work leads me. so i need to be there painting every day and each work points on towards […]

Leaving the Ground with New Paintings by Anita Hochman

Louise Martin-Chew, 2011

Anita Hochman’s recent landscapes are delineated by gesture, brushstroke and colour. Many of these abstracted vignettes, in their metallic and iridescent colours, have a mirage-like changeability, the reflection on their surfaces reading differently depending on the position of the viewer, much as a landscape or seascape may change with the day, weather conditions, or even […]