Anna Pommere

I graduated Art Academy of Latvia, Painting department, both Bachelor and Master programs in 2018. Now I work as a painter and also as a teacher of composition and summer studies (sketching and painting) in the Art Academy of Latvia.
ARTIST STATEMENT: I like to paint portraits and figurative compositions, landscapes, animals. One of my favourite theme in art is the concept of memory. I travel, search and paint old stone and wooden barns and houses to keep the memory of them in my works (mostly with watercolour and egg tempera on linen). I also search for 19th and 20th century wooden and metal boxes and other things at the flea markets, and make assemblages, which keep the memories of the people who are already gone.
I am searching for some other persons' belongings and I'm interested in the moments when these things and connected with them memories become impersonal, but only the evidence of some people's past.
I also create small wooden sculptures, which remind some past feelings or thoughts, or something elusive, undetermined.

1996 – 2002 University of Latvia, Faculty of Philosophy
Bachelor's and Master's degree
2003 – 2007 International Institute of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Computer Graphics, Bachelor's degree
2012 - 2018 Latvian Academy of Art (LAA), Department of Painting, Bachelor's and Master's degree

Some Grants:
2016. - Painter Paul Puzinas’s Figurative Painting Workshop Scholarship No.17. For a successfully finished study program, as well as an outstanding creative work in
2017 - The Museum’s sympathy prize in the International Painting Biennale “Marina’2017”, Jurmala City Museum.
2018 - SEB scholarship in fine arts. Exhibition “ART AUTONOMY”, Art Academy of Latvia.
2019 - 2nd International Watercolor Contest, Vienna, Austria. 3-rd Place and Participant Of The Final in three nominations: "Landscape", "Watercolor Experiments", "Storytelling Picture".

2014 „International Painting Department Students Plein Air Final Exibition”. Art Residence Gallery, Kuldiga.
2014 Participation in the charity campaign. Children Clinical University Hospital chambers’ wall paintings. Riga.
2014 “Brederlo – von Sengbusch Art Prize 2014” exibition. LAA, Riga.
2016 “LAA Painting Department Bachelors Works Exibition’2016.” Art House, Kuldiga, Latvia.
2016 Latvian Art Academy Painting Department Bachelors Works’ Exhibition. Malpils Culture Centre, Malpils, Latvia.
2016 Latvian Art and Photography. “798 Art Complex”, Bejin, China.
2017 “Unexpected Meeting”, Tartu Art Academy Gallery, Tartu, Estonia.
2017 International Painting Biennial “Marina’2017”, Jurmala City Museum, Latvia.
2018 LAA students and professor Alaksey Naumov’s exhibition “Kunstakademie Lettland”,
Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh, Gütersloh, Germany.
2018 “Untamable Territories", Art Gallery “Insignia”, Cesis, Latvia.
2019 “KUBOSHOW 2018”, Kunstmesse, Bachum, Germany.
2019 “NICU”, Soloexhibition, J.Rozentals and R.Blaumanis Museum, Riga.
2019 Participation in the project “Art Academy Of Latvia 100”, dedicated to Latvia’s and Art Academy’s of Latvia centennial celebration. Work is enrolled in the printed catalogue of 100 latvia...