Anna Somerville is an award-winning contemporary painter based in Edinburgh, working from her studio at Summerhall. Her practice explores memory, perception and finding a sense of place through layered abstraction.

 

Working primarily with acrylic and ink on panel and linen, she is interested in how meaning emerges through material process, creating ambiguous yet familiar spaces that hold multiple temporal and perceptual states.

 

Somerville graduated with a BA (Hons) in Drawing & Painting from Edinburgh College of Art in 2000. She is represented by &Gallery, Edinburgh, and has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions. Her work is held in private and corporate collections.

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Selected Exhibitions

2026
Foundations, Artsy Online Fair (&Gallery presentation)
Paper Trails, &Gallery, Edinburgh
Summerhall Arts Annual Group Show, Edinburgh

2025
Resonance, Solo Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh
Fragments, Solo Exhibition/Performance, Summerhall, Edinburgh
Fragments, &Gallery, Edinburgh
Summerhall Arts Annual Group Show, Edinburgh
Winter Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh

2024
Distant Views, &Gallery, Edinburgh

2023
Two-Artist Exhibition, Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel, Edinburgh

2022
Reminiscence, Solo Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh
On Paper, &Gallery, Edinburgh

2021
Winter Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh
Tiny Yet Mighty, &Gallery, Edinburgh

2020
Viewpoints (Three-Artist Exhibition), &Gallery, Edinburgh

2019
Reflections, Solo Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh
Annual Winter Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh

2018
Unrestricted, &Gallery, Edinburgh
Summer Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh
Summerhall Residents' Group Show, Edinburgh

2017
Horizon, Solo Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh
Connection, &Gallery, Edinburgh
Edinburgh Art Fair, &Gallery, Edinburgh

2016
Paintscapes, Solo Exhibition, &Collective, Bridge of Allan
Moving Mountains, An Ealdhain Arts Trust, Fort William

2015
Solo Exhibition, White Space Gallery, Edinburgh
Solo Exhibition, Summerhall, Edinburgh
Tendenze Contemporanee, Galleria Merlino, Florence

2014
Motion in Paint (Two-Artist Exhibition), Patriot Hall, Edinburgh

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Selected Awards and Acquisitions 
Anne Redpath Painting Prize, Visual Arts Scotland
Elizabeth Blackadder & John Houston Travel Award, Royal Scottish Academy
Bank of Montreal Financial Group Corporate Art Collection