Meet Annie Green
Abstract landscape artist
I am an abstract landscape painter, inspired by the countryside around me, often East Lothian, Scotland, where I live and work but also when travel takes me further-a-field. In my paintings, I layer colour, mark and remembered shapes to evoke a sense of the place, and my experience of being within it.
Inspiration
Living in East Lothian, Scotland, my work is inspired by nature and the beautiful countryside around me. For me, painting explores the abstract values I find within the landscape. I am excited by wild open spaces, a big sky, the restless and unpredictable beauty of the sea, how the weather sweeps in and the light changes moment by moment, the astonishing colours of nature. Painting for me is not about recreating the reality of the landscape, but rather my experience of being in it - what I notice, the sensory experience, the feelings and memories I bring to it, or are summoned up by the place itself.
A love of colour drives my painting practice.
Recent work has focused on the Scottish landscape, but travel has always been an important source of inspiration.
Process
I work initially from the sketches I make as I walk the coast, fields and hills, often refining down the lines of the land to its simplest form. Later, working from my garden studio, I create small colour studies and then work up these compositions to larger paintings in acrylic and mixed media, often incorporating collage. The process of painting involves many layers, some translucent, some opaque, sometimes covering over previous layers of paint, scratching into, rubbing back, so that the painting’s history reflects the layering and complexity of the land itself.
My paintings have their beginnings in real places and experiences, but the process of creating also involves memory, intuition, responding to the nature of the materials, so that the work evolves into abstract pieces which I hope will have resonance for others too.
Exhibitions
2024
Dukes of West Barns, East Lothian - summer exhibition July and August
Solo Gallery, Innerleithen - from April onwards
Flat Cat Gallery, Lauder - from April onwards
Borders Art Fair, Kelso 14-17/3/24
Visual Arts Scotland, Centenary Exhibition, RSA Edinburgh 17/2 - 14/3/24
Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh - Glimmer exhibition, 15/2 -9/3/24
2023
Flat Cat Gallery, Lauder - featured artist Nov and December 2023
Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkudbiright - Nature’s Pallette, mixed exhibition 9/9/23 - 28/10/23
Whitekirk Hill, East Lothian - 1/6/23 -30/7/23
Ogilvies Studio, Haddington May-October 23
Velvet Easel, Portobello, Edinburgh - mixed exhibition May - July 23
Flat Cat Gallery, Lauder features artist April - May 23
Solo Gallery, Innerleithen April -
Number Four Gallery, St Abbs, Berwickshire - mixed exhibition April 23 -
Borders Art Fair, Kelso, 17-19/3/23
2022
Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh, “It is written that snow is white”, a mixed Christmas exhibition
Number Four Gallery, St Abbs, Berwickshire, mixed winter exhibition, 5/11/22
Velvet Easel, Edinbugh, mixed winter exhibition, 15/10/22
Rooart Gallery, Haddington, mixed autumn exhibition, 1/10/22
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, “Surface” a group exhibition 30/6-3/7/22
Rooart Gallery, Haddington, mixed summer exhibition from 25/6/22
Velvet Easel, Edinburgh, mixed summer exhibition from 2/7/22
Haddstock Festival, Haddington, mixed exhibition 28th and 29/5/22
Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkudbright , “Canvas and Clay” mixed exhibition 30/4 - 25/6/22
Velvet Easel, Edinburgh, mixed spring exhibition March -June 2022
Wychwood Art Gallery, selected work online
2021
Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh, mixed winter exhibition December 21/January 2022
Open Studios, Paintbox Art School, Cockenzie House East Lothian, December 2021
Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh, “Borderlines” duo exhibition June/July 2021
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Thank you.