Anna Blom is a Swedish-born, London-based artist who holds an MA in Painting (Arts and Humanities) from the Royal College of Art (2022) and a BFA in Painting from UAL Wimbledon (2020).

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.

Her works also act as records of the environment in which they were created - Blom lays the unstretched canvas out in the open, exposed to the elements, and paints with raw pigment while allowing situational debris to fall upon the surface. The resultant textured, gritty and matt surfaces speak to the moment they were created, reflecting seasonality, weather conditions, and the artist's shifting emotional landscape. Deliberately ephemeral, her paintings tell personal stories and share fragments of a “painted philosophy”; a way of manifesting the complexity of human experience as an emotionally rich, transient and vulnerable state.

Blom's work has been featured in group exhibitions by galleries and curatorial projects including Apsara Studio (2024) Vortic, London (2024); Studio West, London (2024); Gertrude and Canopy Collections, London (2024); Flowers Gallery, London (2023); Hautes Côtes, Apsara Studio and Sotheby's, Burgundy (2023); Liminal Gallery, Margate (2023); OHSH Projects, London (2023); Aora and Apsara Studio, London (2023); Ovada Gallery, Oxford (2023) and Orleans House Gallery, London (2022) among others.

The research is an archival process of collecting photographs, sketches, white noise and writing which ultimately is poured into a painting. The multiple layers on the canvas are built up with stains of thin washes using raw pigment and permitting situational debris to flow in. This creates textured, gritty, matt surfaces allowing the materials to explore each other, the colours indicating seasonality, and the debris enhancing an awareness of place of production. The making itself becomes a memory of time and place. ​

Anna Blom is a Swedish born, London-based artist who holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2022) and a BFA in Painting from UAL Wimbledon (2020). She has curated, led and exhibited across Europe and UK. Recent exhibitions include LUMA Aora & Apsara Gallery, International Women’s Day Auction with Liminal Gallery and ANNIHILATION OHSH Projects. She is a recipient of 2022/2023 Travers Smith Art Programme, Morrison Foerster Art Programme and been Highly Commended in 2023 CSR Art Awards.

Blom divides her studio practice between South London and Sweden.