From this Friday there will be an exhibition of retrospective of paintings by award winning Edinburgh artist Anna Somerville, including recent works painted at her studio in Summerhall.
Somerville’s bold style and dramatic compositions deliver immediate intrigue and draw you into painterly landscapes of colour and expression that are emotionally charged, visceral, whilst poignant and sentimental.
Anna Somerville, born in Edinburgh 1978, studied Drawing & Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and graduated in the year 2000. In the same year, at the RSA Student Exhibition, she won the Elizabeth Blackadder & John Houston Travel Award, which she took up in Oaxaca, Mexico.
In 2002 she held her first solo show of paintings, inspired by her travel to Mexico, at Friction Gallery in Ediburgh. In 2003, she was awarded the Anne Redpath prize for painting, during the annual Visual Arts for Scotland Exhibition.
Since graduating from ECA, her work has been sold to private collectors, businesses and restaurants, and she has exhibited her work in many galleries and alternative spaces. Anna describes her work as ’emotionally charged, painterly and expressive’, and art critic Colin Gleadell, in his article ‘The Power of Paint’, compared her to ‘ Turner at his most fluid and some of the more abstract American Expressionists’.
For further information see the website here.
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Are there any posters of Imagine at Summerhall available? Would love to attend exhibition, but I’m in Massachusetts.
There is a link at the bottom of the article to the artist’s website where you can see more images.
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