ANNA HARDING

Urban Wildlife / Wildfires

Broom Woods

Oil on Linen

120 x 155cm

2025

Fern 1

oil on canvas

85 x 70 x 3.8cm

2025

Fern 2

oil on canvas

85 x 70 x 3.8cm

2025

Fern 3

oil on canvas

85 x 70 x 3.8cm

2025

Fern 4

oil on canvas,

85 x 70 x 3.8cm

2025

Along The Towpath

Oil on Linen, 155 x 120 cm, 2025 (with detail)

Wildfire at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025

Wildfire, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025

Wildfire series, oil on canvas, each 32 x 40 cm

Wildfire 3

Wildfire 4

Wildfire 5

Wildfire 6

Wildfire 7

Wildfire 8

Underlying my work is an interest in places and their vibe, the past visible in the present, and a questioning of modernist values of which I am a product. I consider futures which didn’t quite work out according to The Dream.

I am highly influenced by the changing seasons, the ability of nature to quietly take over and the immersive experience of being submerged in nature. This series was made in response to the recent LA Wildfires.

Wildfire 9

Wildfire 10

Wildfire 2 SOLD

Wisteria Whiplash (diptych), each panel 60 x 50 cm, shown at 100/50, Unit 1 Gallery, London W10,

20 June-20 July 2025

Wisteria Woods, 100 x 80 cm, oil on canvas, 2025

Cherry Blossom Nail Colours, oil on canvas with IKEA fabric overlay, 100 x 80 cm, 2025

Wisteria Weep, oil on canvas, 40 x 32 cm, 2025

Upside Down Wisteria, oil on canvas, 40 x 32 cm, 2025

Killing me Softly - series of 12 being painted across the seasons in 2025

This series in progress stems from observing the world as I cycle to the studio in Stratford, East London. It is also informed by scrolling news media, filtered through the subjectivity of a mature female city-dweller 2 generations from rural living. The work is attentive to micro-seasonality and changes in the Anthropocene, whether real or imagined, elevating things not used to being looked at. Inspired by Powell and Pressberger’s film Black Narcissus, in which nuns in the Himalayas are driven mad by the wind.