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Briony Anderson

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Briony Anderson lives and works in South West Scotland. Through painting and printing processes, her work engages closely with landscape. Working mostly on paper, landscape is suggested rather than described and often focuses on the meeting of land, sea and sky – untraceable edges. Abstract marks take on pictorial elements of landscapes and colours are often quiet, subtly suggesting distanced encounters with the land. Each work emerges from a convergence between the surrounding landscape, memory, imagination and other sources, such as historical landscape paintings and nature writing. Briony often uses the postcard format in her work to reflect the ritual of sending an A6 sized object in order to share, commemorate and celebrate a particular landscape or location.
Briony Anderson studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art and Art History at The University of Edinburgh. Exhibitions of her work have been presented in various exhibitions and group shows such as Decade, Kirkcubright Galleries, Dumfriesshire (2025); South West Scotland Printmakers, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland (2024), Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen (2023), The Far North: Frozen Stars, Shifting Ice & the Silence Beyond, The University of Aberdeen (2015) and The Wonder Room, Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay, Fife (2015). Residencies include Cove Park, Argyll and Bute; Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Co. Kerry; Dublin Fire Station; Acme Studio's five-year Work/Live Fire Station Residency, London; and Berloni Gallery, London. Works are in a number of private and public collections including the Government Art Collection, The University of Edinburgh, John Jones Contemporary Collection, Art in Healthcare and The University of Aberdeen. She regularly exhibits as part of Southwest Scotland Printmakers.
Horizon (postcard 1)
  • Briony Anderson
  • Horizon (postcard 1)
  • Acrylic
Horizon (postcard 2)
  • Briony Anderson
  • Horizon (postcard 2)
  • Acrylic
Hill Ridge 9
  • Briony Anderson
  • Hill Ridge 9
  • Acrylic
Sea Horizon 2
  • Briony Anderson
  • Sea Horizon 2
  • Mixed Media
A line of of sea, of sky, of sand
  • Briony Anderson
  • A line of of sea, of sky, of sand
  • Watercolour
Night Horizon/16
  • Briony Anderson
  • Night Horizon/16
  • Mixed Media
Slow Sea Rise
  • Briony Anderson
  • Slow Sea Rise
  • Mixed Media
Night Horizon/8
  • Briony Anderson
  • Night Horizon/8
  • Mixed Media

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