Anna Hutton

Anna Hutton makes drawings and prints that hover between representation and abstraction. They are informed by her response to the wild landscape where she lives in rural Norfolk. The themes of both disappearance and emergence run through her artistic practice and are carried in her choice and manipulation of material. Her drawings are fragile and time-consuming as she works over and over the paper surface adding, removing and smudging charcoal and making tiny stippled dots until a balance is found between the ground of paper and her pigment. This activity speaks of a shifting landscape and of nature’s gradual process of loss and renewal. There is an unease to her images and a physical vulnerability to her drawings as the disintegrated charcoal clings only loosely to the paper. Underlying her practice is an awareness of the increasing fragility of our natural world and a question of her own resilience. Recently Hutton has developed the technique of carborundum mezzotint to create prints that also evoke landscape through their blurred and dotted effects using a process where the delicate burrs of the copper ground deteriorate with every print.
Anna was born in Edinburgh in 1972, she lives and works in Norfolk, UK