Anna Dixon-Smith
Anna Dixon-Smith’s recent work has been informed by the landscape in which she lives. Her work does not focus on the dramatic or the picturesque but the familiar and the commonplace - found objects scattered across the landscape. Feathers, stones, seeds, fungi and birds eggs catch her eye as she walks through the countryside. She then creates drawings and paintings based on the found objects she has gathered. A contemporary twist on the Victorian trend of collecting and documenting nature.
Funghi
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As a counter-balance to her magpie country tendencies, Anna has also inherited, from her dancer mother, a love of dance that manifests itself in her energetic and rhythmic figure drawings. She draws from constantly moving dancers, performers and acrobats, which gives the work an immediacy and drama that captures the sequence of movement.
Anna began her art training at Central St Martins in London and completed it at Ipswich School of Art, where she gained a First Class Honours degree. She works from her studio near Boxford in Suffolk but also gains inspiration from regular attendance at the Princes Drawing School in Hoxton.
Red dancers
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