Biography and Statement
Self-portrait (with Ribera's Clubfooted Boy) 2010 (oil, 25 x 20cm)
BIOGRAPHY
Anna was born in Bristol. She received a BA Hons degree in English Literature from Merton College, Oxford, where her work is in collegiate collections. She then studied for a Masters degree in History of Art at University College, London, specialising in Dutch and Spanish 17th-century painting. After working in London for several years, at the National Portrait Gallery amongst other museums and galleries, she now lives and works in Bath.
Last year she showed work at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, at the Gallery Lefort in Bath, and was an Invited Artist at the Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. This year Anna was amongst the top-selling artists at the Bath Society of Artists' Summer 2011 Exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
Anna's painting Self-portrait (with Ribera's Clubfooted Boy) has been chosen to feature in a book commemorating 25 years of the BP Portrait Award, published by the National Portrait Gallery in June 2011. This painting won one of 55 places in the National Portrait Gallery's annual BP Portrait Award competition in 2010, from a field of 2,200 submissions. She is now working on a portrait of the Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, amongst other commissions.
NEWS:
In the Spring of 2012, Anna will take part in an exhibition at Denise Yapp Contemporary Art in Monmouthshire. In late 2013 Anna will have a solo show at Bath's public art Gallery the Victoria Art Gallery.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
One of the aims of my still life paintings is to explore how the inanimate objects surrounding us in our everyday lives hold many kinds of meanings. I am particularly interested in ideas of memory and residual traces, for example the images in the Dark Series tried to deal explicitly with mortality and childhood memories. Literature often feeds into my work, as do the historical traditions of Western still life painting, in particular Dutch and Spanish 17th-century art, the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, and the work of artists as diverse as William Nicholson, Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin. I always work from life and usually precede painting with sketches and drawings.
All images on this site are © Anna Dougherty
BIOGRAPHY
Anna was born in Bristol. She received a BA Hons degree in English Literature from Merton College, Oxford, where her work is in collegiate collections. She then studied for a Masters degree in History of Art at University College, London, specialising in Dutch and Spanish 17th-century painting. After working in London for several years, at the National Portrait Gallery amongst other museums and galleries, she now lives and works in Bath.
Last year she showed work at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, at the Gallery Lefort in Bath, and was an Invited Artist at the Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. This year Anna was amongst the top-selling artists at the Bath Society of Artists' Summer 2011 Exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
Anna's painting Self-portrait (with Ribera's Clubfooted Boy) has been chosen to feature in a book commemorating 25 years of the BP Portrait Award, published by the National Portrait Gallery in June 2011. This painting won one of 55 places in the National Portrait Gallery's annual BP Portrait Award competition in 2010, from a field of 2,200 submissions. She is now working on a portrait of the Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, amongst other commissions.
NEWS:
In the Spring of 2012, Anna will take part in an exhibition at Denise Yapp Contemporary Art in Monmouthshire. In late 2013 Anna will have a solo show at Bath's public art Gallery the Victoria Art Gallery.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
One of the aims of my still life paintings is to explore how the inanimate objects surrounding us in our everyday lives hold many kinds of meanings. I am particularly interested in ideas of memory and residual traces, for example the images in the Dark Series tried to deal explicitly with mortality and childhood memories. Literature often feeds into my work, as do the historical traditions of Western still life painting, in particular Dutch and Spanish 17th-century art, the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, and the work of artists as diverse as William Nicholson, Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin. I always work from life and usually precede painting with sketches and drawings.
All images on this site are © Anna Dougherty