Anna King, is a Scottish

landscape art Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compos ...

ist "who seeks out forgotten spaces and derelict buildings." She was born in

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, spent most of her life in the

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, and lives in the village of

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, near Kelso. She first came to attention of the general public at her degree show at Dundee's

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) is part of the University of Dundee in Dundee, Scotland. It is ranked as one of the top schools of art and design in the United Kingdom. History Attempts were made to establish an art schoo ...

in 2005.

Awards

In 2017, she won the top prize of £20,000 in the annual Jolomo Award, established by

John Lowrie Morrison John Lowrie Morrison (born 1948, Maryhill, Glasgow), known as Jolomo, is a Scottish contemporary artist, producing expressionist oil paintings of Scottish landscapes. Career He became interested in art at an early age, copying chocolate box pic ...

and awarded to Scottish Landscape Artists. She also received the

Royal Scottish Academy The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country’s national academy of art. It promotes contemporary Scottish art. The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy, it became the ...

Landscape Award from the RSA Student Exhibition and also received the Ian Eadie Award from the

Exhibitions

She has had solo exhibitions at: * Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh * Beaux Art Gallery Bath * 108 Fine Art, Harrogate She has also exhibited at many other art galleries including the Glasgow Art Fair and the Gallery Heinzel.

TV

She featured on the BBC Coast Series, when

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visited her during one of her residencies at the Watchie and explored what drew

Joan Eardley Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley (18 May 192116 August 1963) was a British artist noted for her portraiture of street children in Glasgow and for her landscapes of the fishing village of Catterline and surroundings on the North-East coast of Scotlan ...

Catterline Catterline is a coastal village on the North Sea in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is situated about south of Stonehaven; nearby to the north are Dunnottar Castle and Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve. Other noted architectural or historic features in the ...

. Also she is the featured artist in a recent Blackberry Ad which shows William Ramsay, founder of the Affordable Art Fair, visiting the artist and then using his BlackBerry Torch to share her paintings with his colleagues. She also featured in a BBC program "Making Art Work: First Idea to Final Piece"

Art

She normally works in oil and pencil, on paper and board.

"This gifted young artist has spent the past two winters working at Joan Eardley's clifftop studio at Catterline. The results are very different from Eardley's wild, densely painted seascapes: cooler, more cerebral, with an almost icy range of colours. Yet something of Eardley's response to nature as an untameable force is echoed in King's bleakly attractive images of post-industrial landscapes: empty feral places where nature is slowly reclaiming the land."Anna King, Wastelands 108 Fine Art, Harrogate
FINANCIAL TIMES REVIEW, 12 April 2008, Jackie Wullschlager mini review (scroll down the page to find) - requires free registration to view the FT articles.

References

External links

Official web site

Painter Anna King tells why barren spaces and discarded objects inspire her
New Scotsman, 30 May 2009, by Susan Mansfield
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Scotland on Sunday, Aidan Smith 6 January 2008

{{DEFAULTSORT:King, Anna Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Scottish painters 21st-century Scottish women artists Alumni of the University of Dundee People from Shetland Scottish landscape painters Scottish women painters Alumni of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design