Anna Somerville: Resonance

Working predominantly on wooden panels, alongside a small number of linen surfaces, she embraces the materiality of each ground, drawing on a painterly sensibility informed as much by the history and language of painting as by what she refers to as 'found paintings' — surfaces weathered over time, revealing accidental painterly compositions. The move to panel has introduced a different quality of surface within her work — offering new possibilities for layering and revealing earlier layers of work.