Scandi Art Trail Ann Simberg

Ann Simberg-Saunders

Ann Simberg-Saunders, who  graduated in Fine Art Diploma at The Art Academy, curates a group show of Scandinavian artists in the Finnish Church. .

Ann is an artist from a Nordic country, so the landscape of her thoughts and ideas differ in many ways from the UK landscape. This landscape is where myths were made, where dark and mysterious caves and places exist. Where the powers of nature are ever present and mysterious beings still live. Where nights have a fragile, tender light, and where storms make you believe that Thor really does exist.

She paints in search of her identity in order to make sense of herself, her cultural heritage and place in the world.

She uses thin transparent veils of paint that drip, flow and fall, and then in contrast pushes heavy, thick impasto to sit next to it. She takes colour and forms that jar and rest against each other, and pull out of the tangle, a whole.

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THE SCANDI ART TRAIL 2016

The Finnish Church and Norwegian Church with the support of sponsors and the collaboration of local businesses bring to Albion Street in Rotherhithe a series of arts events including music and exhibitions. Though each event is linked to one or the other church, all of them unify in the spirit of the Scandinavian links and heritage with Southwark and Rotherhithe in special. Please refer to each individual event for opening times.

Finnish Church in London

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Norwegian Church in London

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