After many years with a long but distance relationship with Scotland, Brice Cockland now continues this fascination, living and working since 2020, in the highlands. One’s bodily response to the land, the spell, the actuality of being subject to its weather, its power, pagan and receptive, her undeniable subject.
Anna Brice Cockland’s paintings are situated in the space between abstraction and the figurative. There is a pull not of polar opposites but more the tension between, the act of painting becomes a developing dialogue.
Brice Cockland is often found drawing amidst the highlands swiftly changing weather. Horizons appearing, disapearing, light skating across the landscape, dropping pools of colour.
Whether her paintings are reminiscent of an outer landscape or a more internal experience there is always an investigative approach. Remembered spaces and natural phenomena leading decisions of shape and line. The handling of materials, use of pigments, oil paint and collage build an ambiguous narrative.
The palpable energy in the work is reflective of multifaceted critical mediations, a seeking out toward balance and a personal creative truth.
2025 she was longlisted for Jackson’s art prize and nominated for the Highland art prize
Her artist’s book “From A to B and back again, dialogues overheard” can be found in the British library and Brice Cockland was funded by the British Arts Council for “Flow”, a public installation and personal project.
Other installation work in Warrior Square Station, St. Leonards and in private collections indicate Brice Cockland’s earlier strong attachment to text and low art materials, used to document and witness our passage with hope at this art’s core.
Represented by Found Gallery, Dunbar
Locally in Torriden Art Gallery
ABC has exhibited widely in the home counties, London at Salon des Artes, Royal Opera Arcade and internationally in Oregon & New Mexico, USA..
Anna BC’s work features in prestigious collections, including Clerical & Medical & The Financial Times private collections in the U.K., France, Australia & U.S.A..
Fine Art & Critical theory BA Hons Central St Martin’s, University of the Arts, London
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