Image courtesy of Anna Blom.

Apsara is proud to present Threshold, a solo show by artist Anna Blom. Over the last 10 months, Blom has been exploring what it means to live, and to create, surrounded by a state of flux. What do we carry forward? What do we let go of ? What do we preserve? Blom and Apsara are opening up a brief but meaningful window into this exploration, a week-long presentation at Apsara Studio, the first week of September. It’s a chance to reflect over work from 2023-2024, and to share a glimpse of what’s coming next, still tender, still forming. Blom would like to invite conversation, not just about the work, but about what it means to co-exist right now – as artists, as audiences, as humans navigating change.

Anna Blom’s paintings are an investigation of the ephemeral, both emotional and physical. The everyday is punctured with chaos, flux and uncertainty. The air is filled with a complex array of emotions; maybe this is the only true human gauge? Despite its contradictions, inconsistency and obscurity it holds surprises, astonishment – warmth between the obvious. Blom uses raw pigments, debris, objects, sound and writing to capture the duality of the daily emotional events. She calls it a diaristic methodology. It will not allow itself to be refined nor overexplained. It simply bears witness to what was or is.

“My recordings of personal happenings is an investigation in how we connect, merge, and construct ourselves in this ephemerality – these junctures behave like a painted philosophy – an unruly, particle-filled cosmos or unseen atoms”. – Anna Blom

Anna Blom is a Swedish born, London-based artist who holds an MA in Painting (Arts and Humanities) from the Royal College of Art (2022) and a BFA in Painting from UAL Wimbledon (2020). Her work has been featured in exhibitions by galleries and curatorial projects including: Saatchi Gallery and Liminal Gallery, London (2025); Terra Exhibition, Burgundy (2024); Apsara Studio, London (2024), Vortic, London (2024); Gertrude and Canopy Collections, London (2024); Flowers Gallery, London (2023); Hautes Côtes, Apsara Studio and Sotheby’s, Burgundy (2023); Liminal Gallery, Margate (2023); OHSH Projects, London (2023); Aora, London (2023); Ovada Gallery, Oxford (2023) and Orleans House Gallery, London (2022) among others. Her work is held in private collections in the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, United States of America, Central America.