Anita Rose Perry is a contemporary British artist

known for vibrant, detail-filled work centred around hidden tiny worlds, rich layered textures, and the reclaiming of silliness in adult life.

Her paintings blend fine art with hidden storytelling, often filled with playful details, tiny characters, and words of hope.

Beneath the bright colours and humour sits a quieter exploration of adulthood, creativity, nostalgia, and the pressure to turn everything meaningful into something productive.

Alongside her fine art practice, Anita is also the founder of Sugar & Sloth, a globally recognised self-care stationery brand known for its colourful characters and emotionally honest illustrations.

Her recent collection, Not Like Before, explores the way our relationship with play changes as we become adults, asking when creativity stopped being instinctive and started needing justification.

Based in Wiltshire, Anita creates work that invites people to slow down, look closer, and reconnect with curiosity, comfort, and the joy of noticing tiny things.

“adulthood teaches us to stop playing unless we can justify it. My work is about pushing back against”

— Anita Rose Perry