Anna Somerville

ANNA SOMERVILLE REFLECTIONS 2 - 30 March 2019

Cover: Purple Haze (Detail)

Mixed Media on Watercolour Paper, 58 x 76cm

Inside Cover: Neon Scape III (Detail) Mixed Media on Canvas, 30 x 40cm

Additional works will be available during the exhibition.

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ANNA SOMERVILLE

REFLECTIONS 2-30 March 2019

Join us for the opening on Saturday 2nd March from 2-4pm

&Gallery 17 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk 07711 285 545

ANNA SOMERVILLE Following on from Somerville’s August 2017 solo show Horizon at &Gallery, Reflections is her most recent evolution of oil paintings and for the first time, mixed media on paper.

Her decision to work on paper has given her a new found freedom to work with greater immediacy and with the full gamut of artists materials; acrylics, inks, oil bars, pastels, pencils, graphite and spray paint.

Passionate about paint, mark making and colour, Somerville works intuitively imagining expressive, painterly scapes that conjure up hazy memories of places that she has visited.

Layers of thick impasto paint, fine detail glazes, scratched, worked back, scrubbed out and scribbled over canvas, linen and paper, she creates open expanses of space and light in her compositions, allowing the viewer to delve between the layers of paint and reflect on their own memories.

Somerville is an award winning graduate from Edinburgh College of Art and her work has been exhibited in many galleries both nationally and internationally. She works from her studio at Summerhall in Edinburgh where she very much enjoys the vibrancy of the building and it’s residents.

Layered Tide Scape Oil & Mixed Media on Linen, 150 x 150cm

Snow Scape Oil on Canvas, 50 x 80cm

Sky Blue Pink Oil on Canvas, 60 x 60cm

Aqua Horizon Oil on Canvas, 120 x 100cm

Neon Scape VI, VII & II Mixed Media on Canvas, 30 x 40cm

Daybreak Mixed Media on Watercolour Paper, 66 x 101cm

Crimson Dusk Mixed Media on Watercolour Paper, 66 x 101cm

Neon Day Scape & Evening Winter Scape

Mixed Media on Watercolour Paper, 22 x 31cm

Purple Haze

Mixed Media on Watercolour Paper, 58 x 76cm

Silver Skies

Oil on Linen, 58 x 76cm

E D U C AT I O N BA (hons) Painting, Edinburgh College of Art 2000

EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS 2019 2018 2018 2018 2017 2017 2017 2016 2016 2015 2015 2015 2014 2010 2009 2008 2007 2005 2005 2004 2004 2003 2003 2003 2002 2001 2000 2000

Solo Show, Reflections, &Gallery, Edinburgh Group Exhibition, Unrestricted, &Gallery, Edinburgh Summer Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh Group Exhibition, Summerhall, Edinburgh Connection, Group Show &Gallery Edinburgh Edinburgh Art Fair, &Gallery, Edinburgh Solo Show, Horizon, &Gallery, Edinburgh Solo Show, Paintscapes, &Collective, Bridge of Allan Moving Mountains, An Ealdhain Arts Trust, Fort William Solo Show, 25 White Space Gallery, Edinburgh Solo Show, Summerhall, Edinburgh Tendenze Contemporanee, Galleria Merlino, Florence Motion in Paint, Patriot Hall, Edinburgh Group Show, The BackGate Gallery, Pittenweem Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition Solo Show, Covet, Edinburgh Group Show, Scotland Art, Edinburgh Joan Eardley & Lill Neilson Retrospective, Phoenix 369, Edinburgh Group Show, Scotland Art, Edinburgh Invited Artist, Edinburgh International Conference Centre Solo Show, Alternative Gallery Space, Glasgow Group Show, Scotland Art, Edinburgh Anne Redpath Painting Prize, VAS, Edinburgh VAS Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh Solo Show, Friction Gallery, Edinburgh VAS Annual Exhibition, NGS, Edinburgh Elizabeth Blackadder & John Houston Travel Award, RSA, Edinburgh RSA Annual Student Exhibition, Edinburgh

&Gallery, 17 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QG www.andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk