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In her most recent
group of paintings Ana Bianchi 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. Elements of collage and patchwork seem to overlay
the distant hills and valleys which appear to be trace memories
of places visited and an emotional response to the landscape
in which she finds herself, whether it is the rolling Cotswold
and Wiltshire hills where she lives or the more spatial settings
of Yorkshire or Norfolk. These works maintain a delightful
equilibrium between representational landscapes and landscape
as abstract inspiration.
She exhibits regularly at Art London and
the London Art Fair in Islington and 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. In 2010 she will be exhibiting
at the London Art Fair, Islington; the 20/21 International
Art Fair at the Royal College of Art, Kensington 18-21 February;
and "Light on the Landscape" at the Moncrieff Bray
Gallery, West Sussex from 12th June - 3rd July. She has just
been included in a book by Jacob Sutton "British Art
Now" 2010.
Her work can be seen at the COSA
Gallery, Ledbury Mews North, London W11; the Moncrieff
Bray Gallery in Petworth, West Sussex; the Dollar
Street Gallery in Cirencester, Glos; Corman
Arts in Hampstead, London and the
Flint Gallery in Blakeney, North Norfolk.
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The Ridge – Day Two
Oil on canvas, 66 x 66cms £1,350
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The Copse
Oil on canvas, 61 x 61
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Towards the Ridge
Oil on canvas, 78 x 30.5cms
£1,300 |
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The
Ridge – Tapestry
Oil on canvas, 70 x 50cms
£1,400 SOLD |
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Ridge – Day Two
Oil on canvas, 66 x 66cms
£1,500 SOLD |
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The
Ridge – Horizon
Oil on canvas, 96.5 x
38cm £1,600 |
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Cypress
Trees VI
Oil
on canvas, 91 x 91cms £2,250 |
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Cypress
Trees
Oil on canvas, 90 x 90cms
£2,200 SOLD |
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The Ridge – Ochre & Blue
Oil on canvas, 66 x 66cms
£1,500 SOLD |
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Cypress
Trees III
Oil on canvas, 91 x 91cms
£2,250 SOLD |
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The Ridge – Winter Day
Oil on canvas, 50 x 50cms
£1,250 |
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The Ridge – Winter Day II
Oil on canvas, 61 x 61cms
£1,400 SOLD |
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