Anya Sinclair (b.1978) grew up with a paintbrush in her hand, in Auckland’s lush Waitakere Ranges. She studied Fine Arts at Elam, before travelling and eventually relocating to Dunedin in 2006, where she finished her BFA at the Dunedin School of Art. Sinclair now lives with her husband, son, and greyhound in a rambling house in Port Chalmers.