This painting received a Commended award for Easel Painting at the Art Whitsunday 2016 29th Annual Exhibition.
This piece is the 2nd in an ongoing series of paintings that communicate the internal struggles felt by the artist when experiencing heightened anxieties. 'Stressed 2 - Overcoming' shows how the artist's response to anxiety has begun to moderate over the 22 year period since the original 'Stressed', 1994, was painted.
This piece was created using both the fluid painting technique of pouring acrylic paint onto the canvas surface before being manipulated, and painted at the easel using brushes and palette knives. The highest quality Atelier Free Flow and Atelier Interactive acrylic paints were used to ensure the brilliant pigment strength is retained during the drying process.