In today's Glasgow Lives, we talk to Anna about moving from her home in the Netherland to Scotland in the 90s, how she first began painting and why she decided to settle in Glasgow.
I came to painting quite late, in terms of getting my degree and doing it full time, although I started painting in my late teens.
I came to live in Scotland in 1991. It had always been a dream of mine to live on a rock somewhere in the North Sea, and coincidentally my husband at the time was offered a job on Orkney. We jumped at the chance - it was my opportunity to finally live in the kind of place I had dreamed of for as long as I can remember.
My previous exhibition Borderline opened in Glasgow after the pandemic. At that time, I was really quite focused and had a clear theme in my mind, and work, about boundaries and borders. After that I think I had quite a delayed feeling about the whole time of the pandemic and of course a lot of awful things were happening in the world with wars breaking out, and for me personally, some people close to me died. I was thinking about moving back to Orkney.
Despite that, the show has been very successful. As a painter you work in a small studio space surrounded by the work, living intensely with it. It's always good to get the work into the exhibition space and look at it from a distance on the gallery walls. Looking at it now, I am happy with it, and I can see much more clearly that some of the work is pointing me now in a certain direction and what I can build on.
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