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Originally trained as a designer in Paris, Ana Bianchi later studied fine art at Chelsea, the Byam Shaw and Central St Martin’s in London. A painter and sculptor, she has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe. She was one of 30 artists from Britain, Norway and the Posnan Art Academy to join a site specific project headed by Jaroslav Koslowski in Skoki, Poland in 1997, and she was one of six British artists chosen by the Greene Gallery in Geneva, to exhibit in “Unusual Tension” in 1999. More recently she was invited to exhibit in Barcelona in a mixed painting show.
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A Gloucestershire
resident, she has exhibited at the Stroud House Gallery, the
Anderson Gallery, Burford and the Dollar Street Gallery, Cirencester.
She has been a regular contributor to the biennial "Fresh
Air" open-air sculpture shows in Quenington, which
she curated and organised in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011.
In London, she has exhibited in various venues
including the Hyde Park Gallery, Lauderdale House and Gallery
27 in Cork Street. In 2002 and 2003 she had solo painting
exhibitions at the Gavin Graham Gallery. She had a third solo
painting show at the COSA Gallery, London in April 2005.
Ana Bianchi now concentrates almost entirely on painting and in her most recent group of paintings she handles the texture, colour and form of the land with a sculpting hand, almost carving the paint on to the canvas with a layering of colour and varied brushwork. These landscapes are explorations of the cutting and layering of shape and colour in a rural setting and they combine a rich palette with a tendency to abstraction and painterly brushwork whilst retaining the haunting, ambiguous qualities that have always characterised her sweeping, spatial landscapes.
In April 2009 she exhibited
at Gallery 27, Cork Street in a double show with Cornish artist
Caroline Delevingne. In May 2009 she had a solo show at the
St Giles Street Gallery
in Norwich. She was one of the artists selected for the ING
Discerning Eye Exhibition held at the Mall Galleries in November
2009. She has been included in a book by Jacob Sutton "British Art Now" and she exhibits regularly at Art London, the London Art Fair, Islington and the 20/21 British Art Fair at the Royal Academy.
Her work can be seen at the Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, the COSA Gallery, London W11; the Moncrieff
Bray Gallery in Petworth, Kent; and the Flint Gallery in Blakeney, North Norfolk. |