ZANNA WILSON

Zanna has spent her adult life living and working in Scotland and is now settled in rural Perthshire with her husband and two young daughters. Although perhaps more widely known for her landscapes, Zanna lived in Edinburgh for many years and is particularly fascinated by the cobbled streets and architecture of the Old and New Towns. Whether depicting rolling countryside or city scenes Zanna likes to focus on the light, space, texture and atmosphere of her subject and tries to see beneath the surface to reveal the energy of the space around her. Her media for this are varied; she uses a mixture of oil and beeswax, raw pigments, inks, watercolours and pastels.

Zanna has become a highly collectible artist in recent years and her work is held in private collections in the U.K., America, France, South Africa and New Zealand. She studied at Leith School of Art, graduating in 2005, and was the recipient of two important awards in 2007, the David Cargill Senior Award at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and the Jamieson Award for Drawing at the Paisley Art Institute. Zanna's first solo exhibition was held at the Compass Gallery in Glasgow in 2009, closely followed by one at the Watermill in Aberfeldy. She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions around the country including at The Flat Cat Gallery, Lauder, Flaubert, The Anthony Woodd Gallery, The Morningside Gallery and The Leith Gallery in Edinburgh, Cyril Gerber Fine Arts in Glasgow and The Lime Tree Gallery in Suffolk as well as the Glasgow, Cambridge, Chelsea and Affordable Art Fairs.  Zanna has also exhibited with the Society of Scottish Artists and the Royal Society of Scottish Watercolourists at The Royal Scottish Academy. Strathclyde University has recently purchased one of her paintings for their public collection.