Anderson’s portraits explores gesture, movement and notions of privacy in public, she catches her subjects unaware, presenting their most private moments, those spent alone in public.Her imagery is often based on photographs taken of strangers as they move through urban spaces. Near transparent washes of paint record these people passing by, lost in their own thoughts. Otherwise banal, forgotten moments of everyday life are transformed into striking, evocative images. The transparent washes of paint give the surface an appearance of having been stained rather than painted upon, resulting in an unusually fragile image.

Jackie Anderson, born 1973

Jackie Anderson is a Glasgow-based artist. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United Kingdom, as well as in New York and California. Her paintings capture moments of city life with evocative detail and an incredible ability to evoke atmosphere, frequently depicting strangers in public places, lost in thier own thought. The warmth of passing faces in Anderson's scenescontrasts with the clean, industrial lines, implying the fragility of life in the modern urban environment. As well as the Fleming Collection, her work is in the collections of The Royal Bank of Scotland and The Royal Scottish Academy.