London Art Award nomination Anna King: 'I find myself in a no-mans land. Unclaimed territory, that, for a while anyway, I can have as my own.'

Jan Patience’s review for the Glasgow Herald earlier this year: “...since King’s degree show, King, 26, has matured into one of Scotland’s leading contemporary landscape painters. Not only has she 40 exhibitions under her belt, in 2007, she won the inaugural Jolomo Lloyds TSB Landscape Award, which brought her to the attention of a wider, non-gallery-going public. Writer Arlene Searle adds: “The resulting collection of paintings for this exhibition reflects the ease with which Anna creates an image when it really does flow, the body of work hanging together like a thoughtfully orchestrated document of modern existence. High rises, factories, old castles, rundown greenhouses, old tin shacks; each building holds its own against the encroaching natural world, each painting exploring the delicate balance between the man-made and the natural, the permanent and the changing.”

On her website (www.anna-king.com), the artist explains her all-at-once childish and yet sober inspiration “I find myself in a no-mans land. Unclaimed territory, that, for a while anyway, I can have as my own. It’s an adventure playground that nobody meant to build, a desolate, wild expanse of cracking concrete and decaying structures.” Anna's website