Anna King : Reclamation
Anna King is a Scottish contemporary landscape painter. An exhibition of new and recent paintings, Reclamation is a survey of deconstructed sheds to overgrown greenhouses, clearfell sites and field edges, exploring nature's opportunistic reclaim of our managed landscapes.
'I've always been interested in places where man and nature meet - the overlooked and unloved margins of our landscape. As humankind's continuing impact on the world becomes ever more apparent, the way we interact with and shape the landscape around us is becoming more and more pertinent. These works celebrate weeds and wildness, and beauty found in the unpredictable tangle of encroaching plant life.'
King works in oils on paper, drawing into the wet paint with pencil - the result being a deconstructed, sketch-like finished work. The smooth surface, fragility and fluidity of the mark making on paper echoes the temporary and incidental nature of the places she paints.
King was born in Shetland in 1984, graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee in 2005 and now lives and works in the Scottish Borders. King won the inaugural Jolomo Lloyds TSB Landscape Award and the Anna Miller Scholarship in 2007 and exhibits widely throughout the UK.
