Anna Sweeten

This is the artist’s first exhibition in the UK for more than twelve years. After exhibiting in Cambridge and elsewhere in East Anglia in the 1980s and 1990s, Anna Sweeten had one-person shows in Milan in 1996 and the United States in 1998, and since then has been represented by a gallery in New England.

Although over this period Anna Sweeten has worked with the landscapes of Northern Italy, the American midwest and the coast of Maine, she has retained her affinity with the sparsely populated flatlands of eastern England. This exhibition is pervaded by the wide skies of East Anglia’s fenland and the North Norfolk coast.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I could hope that my work speaks for itself, but I can say that I am passionate about landscape and especially that which I have known longest and most intimately. My aim is to paint the image of the immediate and arresting glimpsed or glanced at view one gets before the mind begins its own analysis (such as working to ‘see’ atmosphere). The impact of this first glimpse is all the more amazing in a subject so familiar, yet it never fails to occur.

I feel a strong emotional attachment to the eastern counties’ landscape and the desire to portray it has become increasingly important as I have grown older.”