ANNA BLOM

I’m absolutely delighted to show two new paintings in @vongoetz next group exhibition with many artists whom I admire and enjoy interesting dialogues with. ‘A Place Between the Pines’ at Crowsley Park, South Oxfordshire Opening Sunday 31 May 2-4pm Open by appointment 31 May - 28 June Rsvp to [email protected] Max Bainbridge @forestandfound Johanna Bath @fraeulein_bath Alicja Biala @alicjabiala Anna Blom @annabloominghell Tereza Červeňová @tereza_cervenova Salvatore Fiorello @salvatoreluciofiorello Lavinia Harrington @laviniaharrington Beatrice Hasell-Mccosh @beatricehasellmccosh Jin Han Lee @leejinhanlee Callum Harvey @callumharveyartist Henry Hudson @henryhudson_bk Jemima Moore @jemima_moore_ Martine Poppe @martinepoppe Jessie Stevenson @jessiemstevenson Jill Tate @jilltate_ Yijia Wu @ikeeabug Xu Yang @_xu.yang_ Curator @lucyvongoetz : ’’𝘼 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 presents the work of leading contemporary artists to explore Carl Jung’s theory of the tension of opposites through painting, sculpture and photography. Carl Jung proposed that transformation - whether personal, cultural, or symbolic - does not occur through the resolution of conflict but through the sustained tension of opposites. From this tension emerges what he termed the transcendent function: a third position, neither one pole nor the other, through which new forms of meaning become possible.  The pine forest with its vertical striving and subterranean root systems becomes a symbol of individuation, linking earth and sky, unconscious depth and conscious form.  Jung understood nature as one of the primary screens onto which the unconscious projects its contents. Contemporary landscape here becomes a theatre in which identity, loss, belonging and transformation are rehearsed.’’

A massive thank YOU to everyone who visited, to the brilliant artists and to Nick @nh.b and Tom @thomashjelmstudio - loved the conversations 🖤 I’ll be at the gallery on Friday midmorning if you want to say hi. ‘ARE WE REALLY HERE?’ @hbh_gallery Open daily 10am-6pm - last day Friday 8 May 67 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7PT ” ‘Are We Really Here?’ is a group show dealing with the niggling sensation that what we see isn’t really what we get. Slowly, our sense of ”reality” is fading, replaced by something worse and less authentic. We are entering the sub-real; a development which moves beyond the Enshitification of online platforms and other services, to a creeping replacement of the things you know by versions which bear only superficial equivalence. It is the data-driven, para-social dystopia where the brand is the product and content is king. But what does it mean to be here? And how do we position ourselves in relation to the rest of society?” The group of artists that we have gathered have a remarkable breadth of vision and response to these challenges. Together they depict a world in flux, where we are desperately searching for parts of ourselves that we have lost. They negotiate complex questions of identity, memory, place, desire, and what they have left behind are powerful windows in to the exquisite discomfort which it is to be human. The necessity of these little fragments which prove that we actually were here, living and breathing. Reinforcing the importance of what’s in front of your eyes.   The presentation of the space itself will encourage a new form of interaction. We will take the visitor on a journey, through a show which demands to be seen. The show will place importance on the need to stop and focus. It will encourage viewers to slow down, take their time, and look, look, look at the work. These are some of the most exciting artists of their generation and they deserve your attention.” Anna Blom Anna Sampson
Charlie Soffe
Francisco Valdes
Jazz Grant
Linda Zhengova
Mattia Guarnera
Oleksii Shcherbak
Ruth Gilmour Sally Kindberg
Thomas Hjelm
Tom White Victoria Cantons
Xu Yang #AnnaBlom #contemporarypainting #hbhgallery .

Anna Blom’s practice moves between abstraction and figuration, creating atmospheric works shaped by memory, environment and lived experience. Working intuitively, she builds her surfaces through layers of pigment and found materials, allowing the surrounding landscape and daily encounters to imprint themselves onto the canvas. Her paintings feel both expansive and intimate—where colour, gesture and debris hold traces of time, place and emotion. Rather than fixed images, her works operate as conversations—open, evolving and deeply responsive to the world around her. 🎥 by @douggillen for @fifthwalltv

. ‘ARE WE REALLY HERE?’ with @hbh_gallery I’ll be there tomorrow, Monday 4 May for brunch around 11am, swing by for a chat. ‘Generation of Long Thumbs’ is an artwork which begun on the forest bed in Sweden while detoxing the screen-addicted London child who’s adjusting to forest living and learning to build a tree house. At times I’m scared how the devices take over and wonder if we’re the last generation of Homo Sapiens. Acrylic, raw pigment (iron oxide, graphite, chalk), situational debris (wood shavings, pine needles, bark, sand) on canvas 180x150cm ‘ARE WE REALLY HERE?’ Open to Friday 8 May 10am-6pm 67 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7PT Three paintings are available for sale, please send enquiries to Nick or Tom at [email protected] Feel free to reach out to me for any other enquiries [email protected] #AnnaBlom #contemporarypainting #hbhgallery .

See you this Thursday 6-9pm! Public opening of ‘ARE WE REALLY HERE?’ with @hbhgallery I’ll be there from 6pm-7.30pm to celebrate with you, before heading off to celebrate my youngest daughter’s birthday. ‘A self-portrait of inner dialogues’ is a reflection of aging and becoming. There is an enormous freedom in ageing, the body may feel worn, but the mind has power and a better capacity of letting go. It’s liberating to give less f*cks. I want to celebrate aging, especially female aging, more. Acrylic, raw pigment (aged copper), situational debris on canvas 180x150cm The exhibition runs from 1 May - 8 May (a week only) 67 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7PT Three paintings are available for sales, please send enquiries to Nick or Tom at [email protected] Feel free to reach out to me for any other enquiries [email protected] #AnnaBlom #contemporarypainting #hbhgallery .

. I’m super excited to show 3 paintings at ‘ARE WE REALLY HERE?’ with @hbh_gallery opening Thursday 30 April 6-9pm. ‘Acid Sleep’ was produced in London during the reoccurring sleepless hours of 3am when the overwhelming sleep deprivation makes you even see colours differently. Acrylic, raw pigment, situational debris (plastic) on canvas. 180x150cm. The show runs from 1 May - 8 May (a week only) 67 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7PT #AnnaBlom #contemporarypainting #hbhgallery .

Expressive, gestural and deeply rooted in the place of their creation @annabloominghell ‘s remarkable paintings come to act as a form of diary, trying to make sense of the complexity of the world around us. Blom describes her paintings as observational portraits, which take chunks of their environment and commit them to canvas. Sometimes the works are buried in the Swedish forest, others submerged in the Thames, but they all employ locally sourced and foraged objects (such a ground up building brick or chalk) as pigment. @hbhgallery is delighted to be showing three works by the artist in our upcoming London exhibition, Are We Really Here? Go to hbhgallery.com and sign up to our newsletter to be the first to hear about our upcoming plans and exhibitions.

We will be hosting a talk before the opening of 𝘼 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 >>> Curator, Lucy von Goetz will be in conversation with artists, Max Bainbridge, Anna Blom, and Martine Poppe. Spaces are very limited and on a first come basis, please RSVP to [email protected] if you wish to attend. Thursday 21st May 12:00 - 13:30 *The event will be filmed. 𝙈𝙖𝙭 𝘽𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙜𝙚 (b. London) Spanning a material language of wood and metal Bainbridge’s work seeks a grounded presence in the physicality of the sculpted object through his enduring relationship to the natural body of the tree. By working with trees that have fallen where they once grew, his sculptures are a direct and intimate connection to land and place. By shifting the narrative from strength and fertility to that of vulnerability and mortality, each sculpture offers a different lament on what it means to be human, to exist within a fragile and ever-changing ecosystem. 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝘽𝙡𝙤𝙢 (b. Sweden) lives and works in London. Her painting and installation-based practice is a diaristic response to her own environment. It deconstructs the fragile details, the physical and psychological components, of the everyday landscape resulting in observational portraiture. Using collected objects, matter, white noise and writing, poured into unstretched canvas on site of investigation to enhance time and place of production. 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙚 (b. Norway) Poppe’s artistic practice revolves around exploring themes of climate change, ecofeminism, and gender tropes. She pushes the envelope of photorealism beyond the domain of the literal with measured, scalloped brushwork that allows the paintings to be read as abstract compositions. Poppe paints on what she calls “the underskirts of the Old Masters,” using the same specialised fabric that conservators use for restoring fragile Renaissance paintings. Although this translucent fabric may appear delicate, it is designed to be strong and durable. By using it as the support for her paintings, Poppe affirms the power of quiet resiliency as an alternative to more overt representations of strength in art.

Thoughts from the studio Full film ‘Creating Transference’, by William Kennedy @willixmkennedy , can be found on my website, see link in bio. #AnnaBlom #coexistence #artiststudio #contemporarypainting  Cover detail from painting ‘Reconstitution’ Acrylic, raw pigment, clay, situational debris on canvas. 180x150cm .

My smallest painting to date ’We are all dust particles’ is participating in the group exhibition ’Micromania’ in Maastricht presented by Kalkman Gallery @kalkman.maastricht and Liminal Gallery @liminal_gallery coinciding with the TEFAF Maastricht. With its tiny 10cm width and height (4 cm depth) I can hold the work in my hand and it feels like an object. This size has become a weekly investigation of raw pigments and by end of the year there will be a pigment-diary of 52 paintings. PV on this Saturday 14 March 10am-8pm at Kalkman Gallery, Hondstraat, 1A Maastricht, Netherlands Thank you Louise & Hubert! . Kalkman Gallery (Maastricht, NL) and Liminal Gallery (Margate, UK) join forces to present Micromania @micromania.maastricht , a bold collaborative exhibition bringing together over 80 artists in a single, concentrated presentation. Ambitious in scope and international in reach, the project unites painters, sculptors, photographers, street artists and multidisciplinary practitioners around one simple, shared challenge: to create work within a maximum size of 10 × 10 cm. Open 14 March - 12 April . We are all dust particles, 2025 Acrylic, raw pigment (hero pigments: iron oxides, ore from a Swedish brook, Caput Mortuum), situational debris, sealer on canvas. 10x10cmx4cm For sales please contact Hubert at [email protected] #AnnaBlom #contemporarypainting #micromania #tefafmaastricht .

. The interview by Senem Çağla Bilgin-Keys is now out in the latest issue of Vision. In gorgeous company of Giuseppe Penone, Jessica Cerasi, Olivia England, George Richardson, Mar Ijsel Villegas, to name a few. Thank you @senemcb for studio visits, chats and book-tips-sharing - I adore our never-ending-enriching conversations. Bravo to @visionartplatform for producing a solid item. In a world of fastness its feels rewarding to encounter something filled with density and durability. @vision_art_magazine can be bought at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Art Basel Book Fair. #AnnaBlom #coexistence #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #publication

📌Artist Highlight - Anna Blom @annabloominghell ⁠ ⁠ 'Shadows on a Rainy Winter Afternoon,' Acrylic and raw pigment on plywood panel ⁠ 'When Green Turning Brown,' Acrylic and raw pigment on plywood panel⁠ ⁠ Part of the AOAP Projects' International Women's Day Auction, curated by @louise_fitzjohn ⁠ ⁠ Anna Blom’s practice contemplates the diaristic, each piece acting as a response to her environment and emotional state at any given moment. Her semi-abstract paintings, which she describes as “observational portraits”, contain traces of her continuous research; an archival process of investigating how individuals connect, combine and construct themselves through collecting objects, matter, white noise and writing. Drawing on this material, the artist deconstructs the fragile details of daily life in each piece, allowing transient forms to allude to the physical and psychological components of her lived experience.⁠ ⁠ 🖼️ Online auction with Givergy ⁠ 🗓️ 5 - 19 March ⁠ 📍PV on 10 March at The Bomb Factory Holborn 103 Kingsway, London WC2B 6QX 🔗 RSVP & register to bid via our link in bio ⁠ ⁠ Money raised will go towards the innovative work The Hepatitis C Trust carries out in Women’s Prisons where much of the prison population tests positive for hepatitis C, and the majority of women affected or at risk of hepatitis C are marginalised, experience gender inequalities, and often face complex multiple needs which are poorly met. ⁠@hepatitisctrust ⁠ ⁠ #aoapprojects #internationalwomensday #iwd #internationalwomensday2026 #givetogain ⁠