Raised without television, a young Anj Smith sought discovery and escape through books. She now creates her own narratives–on canvas rather than on the page–but turns to literature, a “love of her life”, for the structures that order her painted worlds. Hear the artist discuss synesthesia, William Blake, and the life cycle of linguistic meanings in today’s HENRY Q&A.
Anj Smith’s exhibition The Flowering of Phantoms is on view at Hauser & Wirth through February 23.
The Sentry, 2012
Oil on linen
