Anna Galea (b. Malta, 1958) is an established, award winning artist based in Malta, Rome and Dubai, best known for her exceptionally large and vibrant still-life paintings and abstractions.
Holding a Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Art History, as well as a Master’s Degree in Creativity and Innovation (University of Malta), she has also attended painting workshops at Central St. Martins (UK), and been mentored by Maltese masters Harry Alden and Anton Calleja. Galea has exhibited her art extensively across the main capital cities of Europe, in the UAE (including at the DUBAI 2020 EXPO), as well as in China, Washington and New York.
Galea’s favourite medium is watercolour, although she also paints in oils, acrylic, pastels and charcoal. She finds watercolour a challenging medium that can produce exciting, fluid and intense art. Inspired by nature, she delights in zooming in to produce dramatic and sometimes abstracted interpretations of normal mundane subjects which we all tend to take for granted.
Galea’s watercolour work has been honoured as masterful in the United States of America as well as in Europe and the UAE where she was entrusted with conducting Master watercolour demonstrations at the International Watercolour Society Conventions in Fabriano Italy (2016), in Dubai (2018), in Turkey (2022,) in Poland and Qingdao China (2023).
In October 2023, she was one of the selected participants at the prestigious XIVFlorence Biennale , where she exhibited a large scale watercolour triptych.
Anna Galea’s paintings have featured in books of the highly acclaimed ‘International Artist’ publishers of USA, on telecasts, calendars, book covers and other publications. Her works can be found in various private collections of art connoisseurs, in palaces and museums, banks and offices.
“Galea’s subjects pulse with life, celebrating the harmony of light and colour” - Agora Gallery, New York, 2017
In Malta, Anna's studio/gallery can be visited by appointment - email annagalea58@gmail.com, phone +356 99841055
In Dubai, represented by ZeeArts - https://www.zeearts.net/
In New York, represented by ART UpClose, 84 Orchards Street - http://www.artupclose.com/anna-galea/
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More about Anna here:
https://www.art-mine.com/artistpage/anna_galea.aspx
https://doodlewash.com/2016/08/19/guest-doodlewash-breathing-spirit-into-your-art/
