Anna Grayson

Anna Grayson's very popular re-imaginings of famous works of art are now available as limited edition photographic prints. All are approximately A3 in size.

Anna was a latecomer to art after a long and award-winning career as a BBC Presenter and Science Writer, specialising in Geology. She spent a year at Art College and almost immediately received a commendation by the South-West Academy. She had her first picture hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2014. She had further successes in 2018 (when Grayson Perry hung two of her pictures); then in 2021, 2024 and now in 2026.

She has also had work exhibited in the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol and has had a solo show in the prestigious Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter. Her work appeared on Grayson Perry's Art Club (Channel 4) and has featured in the Western Morning News and in Devon Life Magazine.

Anna's work has found its way into private collections around the world, from New York to New Zealand. They are collector's pieces that can also form major elements of room design. “A lot of people wonder what it would be like to have their favourite old master hanging at home. My pictures give the chance to do that but combined into highly original contemporary pieces with layers of meaning and joy.”

Anna Grayson's photographic pastiches of famous works of art are highly collectable, and hang in private collections around the world from New York to New Zealand. She is one of very few artists in the region to have had several pictures hung in London's Royal Academy. She is now a member of the Yellow Room Artists - a group who got together after having work hung in Grayson Perry's famous Yellow Room in the 2018 Summer Exhibition. 

Anna has been making photographic updates of famous works of art since 2013 when her version of Jan Van Eyck's  Arnolfini Marriage (in the National Gallery London) was hung at the annual South West Academy Open show. She has been a regular contributor to the Academy ever since. Her aim is to give the collector their favourite old master but in the form of a completely new and original contemporary artwork.  These are not merely copies of great art, they are great art re-imagined for our present age. There is a good deal of social comment and many of the works are themed around gender and equality issues. She is a former broadcast journalist, and that edge shows in the narratives of her work - most are very funny, and humour in art is all too rare. But all have serious depth and intellectual rigour to them.

Although they are for sale as single unframed prints, they look particularly good in groups, giving the illusion of an impressive gallery when you walk into a room hung with them. "They look particularly good hung in recycled frames, echoing the way the original works are hung." Says Anna. "They are always a focus of interest and talking points, and a great way to further knowledge and interest in Art History"  

Anna has produced some new pieces during lockdown including a version of Millais'  Mariana - that sad and lonely heroine in a bright blue dress, hands on hips and weary, weary expression as autumn leaves fall around showing the slow passage of time. Anna has replaced the colourful stained glass in the Gothic windows with rainbows.

" There is no better time to invest in art. None of us can spend our income on holidays, and even a meal out is difficult. Art is a wonderful treat you can enjoy forever and if you buy the work of an established listed artist, it may well turn out to be a canny investment for the future too."

Digital Print on Archival Paper.

29.7x42cm

Unframed

Edition of 100