Biography
 

Originally trained as a designer in Paris, Ana Bianchi later studied fine art at Chelsea, the Byam Shaw and Central St Martin’s in London. A painter and sculptor, she has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe. 
She was one of 30 artists from Britain, Norway and the Posnan Art Academy to join a site specific project headed by Jaroslav Koslowski in Skoki, Poland in 1997, and she was one of six British artists chosen by the Greene Gallery in Geneva, to exhibit in “Unusual Tension” in 1999. More recently she was invited to exhibit in Barcelona in a mixed painting show.

 

A Gloucestershire resident, she has exhibited at the Stroud House Gallery and the Anderson Gallery, Burford. She has been a regular contributor to the biennial "Fresh Air" open-air sculpture shows in Quenington,  which she curated and organised in 2005, 2007 & 2009. She will be curating the next show in June/July 11 - "Fresh Air 2011".

In London, she has exhibited in various venues including the Hyde Park Gallery and Lauderdale House. In 2002 and 2003 she had solo painting exhibitions at the Gavin Graham Gallery in London. She had a third solo painting show at the COSA Gallery, London in April 2005. 

Ana Bianchi now concentrates almost entirely on painting and in her most recent group of paintings she handles the texture, colour and form of the land with a sculpting hand, almost carving the paint on to the canvas with a layering of colour and varied brushwork. These landscapes are explorations of the cutting and layering of shape and colour in a rural setting and they combine a rich palette with a tendency to abstraction and painterly brushwork whilst retaining the haunting, ambiguous qualities that have always characterised her sweeping, spatial landscapes.

She exhibits regularly at Art London and the London Art Fair in Islington and in April 2009 she exhibited at Gallery 27, Cork Street in a double show with Cornish artist Caroline Delevingne. In May 2009 she had a solo show at the St Giles Street Gallery in Norwich. She was one of the artists selected for the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition held at the Mall Galleries in November 2009. In 2010 she will be exhibiting at the London Art Fair, Islington; the 20/21 International Art Fair at the Royal College of Art, Kensington 18-21 February; and "Light on the Landscape" at the Moncrieff Bray Gallery, Petworth from 12th June - 3rd July 2010. She has just been included in a book by Jacob Sutton "British Art Now."

Her work can be seen at the COSA Gallery, Ledbury Mews North, London W11; the Moncrieff Bray Gallery in Petworth, West Sussex; Corman Arts in Hampstead, London and the Flint Gallery in Blakeney, North Norfolk.

 
Ana Bianchi ~ Tel: 01285 750379 ~ Studio/Mobile: 07785 931021 ~ Email: anambianchi@aol.com