Anna Somerville

Anna Somerville

Paintscapes 8th July - 18th August 2016

Anna Somerville

Paintscapes

8th July - 18th August 2016

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Paintscapes Anna Somerville graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2000 and works from her studio at Summerhall in Edinburgh.

Somerville is known for her expressive painterly style, and has been awarded the prestigious Elizabeth Blackadder & John Houston Travel Award (2000) and Anne Redpath Award for painting (2003).

This exhibition brings together a selection of recent paintings, described by Somerville as Paintscapes. The medium of paint along with a visceral approach to painting is at the heart of Somerville’s work, with each work emerging from an intuitive application of oil paint, raw pigment and mixed media.

These works conjure up bold, atmospheric scapes that draw you into light filled spaces and invite you to look closer between the layers of paint.

Somerville often revisits older paintings, working over them and allowing some of the past paintwork to show through into the new work. An example of this is in the painting ‘Waterfall’ which started life as a large scale figurative self portrait in 2004.

Mountain Scape, 2015 25cm x 25cm, Oil on Canvas

ÂŁ250

Coast, 2015 30cm x 25cm, Oil on Canvas

£285

Crimson Mountain Scape, 2015 30cm x 25cm, Oil on Canvas

ÂŁ285

Blue and Golden Hues Scape, 2015 30cm x 30cm, Oil on Canvas ÂŁ485

Reflected Scape, 2015 30cm x 30cm, Oil on Canvas

£485

Teal Mountain Scape, 2015 30cm x 30cm, Oil on Canvas

ÂŁ485

Blue Scape, 2015 30cm x 30cm, Oil on Canvas

£485

Golden Dusk Diptych (1 & 2), 2015 40cm x 40cm, Oil on Canvas ÂŁ1000

Wild Lake, 2015 40cm x 40cm, Oil on Canvas

ÂŁ500

Thunder Scape, 2015 40cm x 40cm, Oil on Canvas

ÂŁ500

Blue Haze, 2015 100cm x 100cm, Oil on Canvas

ÂŁ1,850

Untitled, 2015 125cm x 125cm, Oil on Canvas

ÂŁ2800

Waterfall, 2004-2015 153cm x 122cm, Oil on Canvas

ÂŁ3,200

Anna Somerville Exhibitions 2016 Moving Mountains, An Ealdhain Arts Trust, Fort William 2015 Solo Show, 25 White Space Gallery, Edinburgh 2015 Solo Show, Summerhall, Edinburgh 2015 Tendenze Contemporanee, Galleria Merlino, Florence 2014 Motion in Paint, Patriot Hall, Edinburgh 2010 Group Show, The BackGate Gallery, Pittenweem 2009 Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition 2008 Solo Show, Covet, Edinburgh 2007 Group Show, Scotland Art, Edinburgh 2005 Joan Eardly & Lill Neilson Retrospective, Phoenix 369, Edinburgh 2005 Group Show, Scotland Art, Edinburgh 2004 Invited Artist, Edinburgh International Conference Centre 2004 Solo Show, Alternative Gallery Space, Glasgow 2003 Group Show, Scotland Art, Edinburgh 2003 Anne Redpath Painting Prize, VAS, Edinburgh 2003 VAS Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh 2002 Solo Show, Friction Gallery, Edinburgh 2001 VAS Annual Exhibition, NGS, Edinburgh 2000 Elizabeth Blackadder & John Houston Travel Award, RSA, Edinburgh 2000 RSA Annual Student Exhibition, Edinburgh