ANNA HARLEY is a local Fine-Art Screenprinter, working at Spike Print Studio, by the harbor in Bristol. Her work is rooted within the Northern European Landscape tradition, while Anna’s colour palette and the fabric textures that inhabit her prints are an echo of her Scandinavian Arts & Crafts background. Her screenprints are inspired by the landscapes she encounters while out walking, trees, mountains and water.

Anna has a Master’s Degree in Printmaking from UWE. She has recently shown her work at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Woolwich Contemporary and The RE International Contemporary Print Exhibition. One of her prints is currently shortlisted for this year’s 2022 RA Summer Exhibition.

The screenprint process suits Anna’s practice because it allows her to build images in fine layers of ink, printing layer upon layer. Using a combination of drawing, digital photography and direct exposure of objects such as fabric and leaves, she builds up these individual layers. Anna enjoys the ambiguity that this variety of mark making creates in her images, while the hand-pulled nature of the process creates slight variation between the prints in the edition, making each print unique.