Anna McNeil

My work originates in lived experience and explores relationships; themes of intimacy, communication, identity, and implicit memory.

Sourcing from mnemonic imagery and found visual resources, my painting plays with both figurative and abstract language and employs the power of suggestion to engage the viewer in a dialogue.

Anna Mcneil is a British Artist living and working near Barcelona. Anna Mcneil was born in Scotland, grew up living throughout the UK and Europe before moving to Barcelona in 2007.

She studied BA Fine Art in Bath in 2002, in 2015 and 2016 studied under the painter Varda Caivano at Salzburg Academy, and more recently took part in the Turps Studio programme in London 2016-17 and Correspondence program 2020-21.

Working between studios in Barcelona and London she has exhibited widely throughout the Uk and Europe, shown with Arusha gallery Edinburgh and participated in Fairs and Arts Festivals.

Awarded the Jacksons Art Prize for figurative painting in 2021, she was also notably selected as a finalist in the Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize in the uk in 2017, and has been awarded a Humet Saula collection Award in both 2022 and 2014.

She exhibits widely throughout Europe and the Uk and has work in many private collections.