Lower Gallery May & June 2025
Destination
Anna Brice Cockland
Although drawing has been a childhood companion, Anna’s art practice deepened and as a mature student, she was offered a place in the second year of a five-year Hons degree course. She graduated gaining a BA Hons in Fine Art and Critical theory at Central St. Martins, London University of the Arts, and with an artist’s book in the British library, her ongoing love of oil painting further established her practice.
Previously offered a distinction in sculpture, assemblage and installation, in 2012 she was funded by the British Arts Council to create a personal project and public installation “Flow”; its shadows rekindling acontinuing interest in calligraphic form and gestural line. This artwork then travelled to the Conquest Hospital St. Leonard’s. Installed outside the Cardiac wards it invited viewers to take a breath in the meditative space it provided.
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Dreaming
Oil on birch
£660


Anna Brice Cockland
Studio, 2024
Flow
Site specific installation, 2012
Anna’s ready willingness to enquire and experiment gives a wide variety of expression as a painter and exhibits entirely unformulaic work informed by the Now of the land. One feels the implicit celebration and joy, both pagan and receptive, in the materiality of paint as well as great empathy for our earth.
Inspired by this particular location, drawing and painting have become her focus here in the Highlands. Anna finds ways to articulate and animate a surface rather than be bound by representation. This produces a freer, emotionally charged, use of paint. Sometimes with an obvious narrative, the artist’s intention becomes secondary. Walking a fine line, balancing the figurative and abstract, abandonment and control inherent in the work.
The work seems to both remind us of our place and at the same time bear witness to Anna’s natural reverence for its beauty. It could be a flitting colour sprung in a moment upon the hills, a dark crevice capturing one twig, the land speaks endless stories past and present and Anna Brice Cockland cannot help but listen.
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Please open slider gallery to view a selection Anna's artwork.​​

Oil on board 50 X 60 cms

Oil on board 40 X 50 cms £720

Oil on Birch £660

Oil on board 50 X 60 cms
Visit our Lower Gallery (no admission charge) to view:
Destination by Anna Brice Cockland
April Opening Hours
Mondays - Saturdays, 10am - 5pm
f you wish to purchase artwork, please use the contact details below. We can accept payment at the Museum or are equally happy to invoice and take payment by bank transfer. At the end of the exhibition, the Museum will help to arrange delivery or collection of your artwork. When a cost is incurred, this is passed on to the buyer. Within Scotland, we usually manage to deploy our “informal” art delivery network and no charge​.
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While you're at the Museum, you might like to also view
Bho Bheul an Eòin (From the Birds Mouth) by Derek Robertson
in our Upper Gallery. This exhibition also has no admission charge.
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