THE WEY GALLERY |  Anita Klein

Born in Australia, Anita moved to the UK when she was eleven.  She studied at the Chelsea and Slade Schools of Art where she gained a BA(Hons) in fine Art and an MA in Printmaking.

Anita is a fellow and past President of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.

Her influences include Japanese Woodblock Prints and early renaissance muralists such as Giotto, Piero Della Francesca and Masaccio. Like theirs, Anita’s is an art of stillness, of action caught and suspended in the transfiguring moment.

Anita’s work is enormously popular and celebrates those moment that are so small or ordinary that we tend to over look them

AWARDS

1982        Henrique Scholarship, Slade School of Art
1983        Henrique Scholarship, Slade School of Art
1984        Joseph Webb Award, Royal Society of Painter Printmakers
1991        John Purcell Award for an outstanding print, Bankside Open
1995        John Purcell Award, National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries


SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arthur Boyd Collection, Australia; Arts Council of Great Britain; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Borchard Collection of 20th Century Self Portraits; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Freshfields London; Leicester Education Authority; Paintings in Hospitals permanent collection; St George’s Hospital, Tooting; University College London; University Hospital, Coventry and Warwicksire; University of Wales Aberystwyth