anita grewal

Anita Grewal is a Perth-based visual artist who uses colour as her primary medium. Born in England and raised in India, she learnt early that colour carries emotional and cultural meaning beyond decoration. Working with gouache on watercolour paper, she creates small-scale abstract geometric compositions where shapes appear both flat and overlapping, allowing colour interactions to drive perceptual experience. Before turning fully to art, Anita worked internationally as a mathematics teacher. She moved to Australia in 2005 and completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Australian National University in 2017.

“Colour interactions and the emotional responses they evoke are central to my practice. I enjoy the creamy quality of gouache as it sinks into textured watercolour paper, forming smooth, opaque fields. This slow, controlled process, combined with the stabilising structure of geometry, supports a sense of order and quiet within the work. The resulting compositions aim to create a clear, immediate visual experience, where colour is encountered directly through perception rather than symbolism or narrative.”