Anna Blom

Overview
Anna Blom

“My work is a diaristic response to my environment; it is a deconstruction of the fragile details - the physical and psychological components - of my everyday landscape”. - Anna Blom

Anna Blom’s practice is predicated on the diaristic, with each piece acting as a response to her environment and emotional state at any given moment. Her abstract paintings, which she describes as “observational portraits”, contain traces of her continuous research; an archival process of investigating how individuals connect, combine and construct themselves through collecting objects, matter, white noise and writing. Drawing on this material, the artist deconstructs the fragile details of daily life in each piece, allowing transient forms to allude to the physical and psychological components of her lived experience. 
 
Her works also act as records of the environment in which they were created - Blom lays the unstretched canvas out in the open, exposed to the elements, and paints with raw pigment while allowing situational debris to fall upon the service. The resultant textured, gritty and matt surfaces speak to the moment they were created, reflecting seasonality, weather conditions and the artist's shifting emotional landscape. 
 
Deliberately ephemeral, her paintings tell personal stories without the need for figuration. For Blom, they are fragments of a “painted philosophy”; a way of manifesting the complexity of human experience as an emotionally rich, transient and vulnerable state.
Biography
Anna Blom

Anna Blom lives and works in London. She graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2022), and a BFA in Painting from UAL, Wimbledon (2020). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions by galleries and curatorial projects including: Vortic, London (2024); Gertrude and Canopy Collections, London (2024); Flowers Gallery, London (2023); Hautes Côtes, Apsara Studio and Sothebys, Burgundy (2023); Liminal Gallery, Margate (2023); OSHS Projects, London (2023); Aora and Apsara Studio, London (2023); Ovada Gallery, Oxford (2023) and Orleans House Gallery, London (2022) among others. 

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